Wonderful animal wombat

05/05/2023

05/05/2023

Wombats are quite friendly and love petting. However, when dealing with them, you need to be careful: these animals are shy, not very smart and unpredictable. Mistaking human actions for aggression, they can inflict wounds with sharp claws or bite

05/05/2023

In addition to the mind, wombats have other virtues. For example, they skillfully dig holes and no less skillfully defend themselves in them from enemies: they clog the entrance to the hole with their backs. The back of the wombat is practically armored - it has thick skin and cartilage that does not bite through.

29/04/2023

Wombats sleep an average of about 16 hours a day and have poor eyesight, so they rely primarily on their sense of smell to find food and get around. The wombat has almost no natural enemies, except, perhaps, the dingo dog and the Tasmanian devil.

29/04/2023

Wombats are the most economical consumers of water among mammals after the camel: they need only 22 milliliters of water per kilogram of body weight per day. Wombats feed on young shoots of plants, as well as tree bark, roots, mushrooms and berries.

29/04/2023

29/04/2023

Wombats do not have a specific smell, because they do not have sweat glands.

29/04/2023

29/04/2023

Wombats are the most economical water consumers of all mammals after the camel: they only need 22 ml of water per kg of body weight per day. Even such animals, perfectly adapted to the conditions of life in Australia, as representatives of the kangaroo family, spend four times more water.