where are wombats?

Can someone tell me whether Wombats live only in Australia,
or also on other continents?

Apart from zoos, of course.

We all know that Wombats are to be found in Zoos.

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<wombat@fancier.net> wrote in message news:m06102801552390@4ax.com...
> Can someone tell me whether Wombats live only in Australia,
> or also on other continents?
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> Apart from zoos, of course.
>
> We all know that Wombats are to be found in Zoos.
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> 29
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The wombat {wahm'-bat} is a heavyset, burrowing, herbivorous animal that is
native to the eastern half of Australia and to the island of Tasmania south
of Australia.
Wombats are thick-bodied animals that have short, powerful legs with strong
claws used for burrowing. They range in length from 70 to 120 cm (27-47 in)
and weigh up to 35 kg (77 lb). Their heads are relatively large but they
have very small tails and small eyes and short ears. Wombats are grayish
brown. The common wombat is coarse haired with a naked nose and rounded
ears. The two species of hairy-nosed wombats have soft fur and a hairy
muzzle and pointed ears that are slightly longer than those of the common
wombat.

The wombat, like many famous Australian animals is a marsupial. The female
has a pouch but, unlike a kangaroo, this pouch opens rearward. This helps
prevent dirt from entering the pouch as the wombat digs.



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Species of Wombats:
Wombats are classified as follows:

Kingdom: Animal
Phylum: Chordata (back boned)
Class: Mammalia (mammals)
Order: Marsupialia (marsupials)
Family: Vombatidae (wombats)
Currently there are three recoginized living species of wombat in two genera
(Vombatus and Lasiorhinus):

Vombatus ursinis - the Common Wombat
Lasiorhinus latifrons - the Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat
Lasiorhinus krefftii - the Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat (also called the
Queensland Hairy-nosed Wombat)

Both genera of wombats are in the family Vombatidae. Formerly the family was
called Phascolomyidae but this has generally been replaced with the new name
of Vombatidae.


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Related Animals
The wombat and koala are the animals must closely related to each other (the
koala also has a pouch that opens posteriorly). Do not confuse wombats with
numbats (Myrmecobius fasciatus), another Australian marsupial. Neither
wombats nor numbats are bats.



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Homes
Wombats' have large and numerous burrows and colonies have even been
observed from space. Many ranchers consider the burrows to be a hazard to
domestic range animals and exterminate the wombats.



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Food
The wombats' main food supply is native grasses. Also included in their diet
are sedges, matrushes and the roots of shrubs and trees. Wombats mainly
forage at night.



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Range, Habitat and Population
In general, you can say that wombats live in the eastern half of Australia
and on the island of Tasmania south of Australia. A more detailed
description of their ranges follows:


a.. Common Wombats live in forest areas between northern New South Wales
and Tasmania. They are quite common.

b.. Southern Hairy-nosed wombats live in western South Australia which is
a more arid area.

c.. The Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat is rare and endangered. There are only
about 70 animals left in one colony occupying 300 hectares (740 acres). They
live in an area of flat, sandy, dry land with native grasses and scattered
trees and scrub. The surrounding area was set aside in 1971 as Epping Forest
National Park to preserve the wombats' habitat. The park is in central
Queensland near Clermont.

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Links to Wombat Images
The following images are Copyright 1995 Cyberdata

a.. http://iccu6.ipswich.gil.com.au/comm...cs/page331.jpg

b.. http://iccu6.ipswich.gil.com.au/comm...cs/page332.gif Range of
Common and Southern Hairy Nosed

c.. http://iccu6.ipswich.gil.com.au/comm...cs/page342.gif Range of
Northern Hairy Nosed

The following images have been collected by someone else


a.. http://www.mistral.co.uk/ghira/vombato.jpg

b.. http://www.mistral.co.uk/ghira/vombato2.jpg

c.. http://www.mistral.co.uk/ghira/vombato3.jpg

d.. http://www.mistral.co.uk/ghira/vombato4.jpg


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Links to Wombat Facts
a.. http://www.erin.gov.au/human_env/esp/wombat.html (Australian Nature
Conservation Agency)

b.. http://kaos.erin.gov.au/life/end_vul...ls/wombat.html (Australian
Nature Conservation Agency)

c.. http://mac-ra26.sci.deakin.edu.au/mammals/wombats0.html (a
bibliography)

d.. http://www.cl.utoledo.edu/userhomes/wlee/wombat.html (facts, fun and
links)

e.. http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~makino/ (Japanese woman maintains wombat
and astromony pages)

f.. http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/Extern...rt/wombat.html

g.. http://cq-pan.cqu.edu.au/schools/loc...ps/wombat.html (An
Australian school's wombat page)

h.. http://iccu6.ipswich.gil.com.au/comm...cs/page33.html (Common and
Southern Hairy Nosed)

i.. http://iccu6.ipswich.gil.com.au/comm...cs/page34.html (Northern
Hairy Nosed)


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Links to Wombat Fun
a.. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~dbowler/Wom.html (This wombat looks like Rick's
wombat Wally )

b.. http://ranga.berkeley.edu/ASIS/earl.html (Someone's mascot Earl )

c.. http://www.st.nepean.uws.edu.au/users/elien/index.html

d.. http://www.crl.com/www/users/wo/wombat/wombat.html

e.. http://plains.uwyo.edu/%7Ewombat/index.html

G wrote:

The year plus break in your posting was because of your "unfortunate
incarceration," right?

Go fucking away.


Kavin

Kavin Taylor wrote:
> G wrote:
>
> The year plus break in your posting was because
> of your "unfortunate incarceration," right?

I doubt that G was incarcerated.

Extensive wombat research takes time, Kavin. My interests are,
obviously, more along the lines of barking moonbats, however.

> Go [expletive deleted] away.

And I would've left the curse, but that would've been rude.

:oD

> Kavin

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Wonder how much protien is in wombat meat
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ericb wrote:

> Wonder how much protien is in wombat meat

No idea on wombat, however barking moonbat has a protein content of 10
grams per ounce. That's the equivalent of ostrich meat, btw.

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