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at a wildlife park i met a baby wombat named tonka. his handlers said he was very affectionate and playful, like a puppy, but they had to wear a makeshift suit of basically leather armour every time they went into his enclosure, because the way baby wombats play is full-body tackling and even though he was tiny it was like being rammed by a joyful cinderblock. when i met him he was fast asleep on his back with his little legs in the air
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also, a wombat's rear end? rock hard. they have like this plate on their rear end, i don't think it's bone, just muscle, but it's so incredibly hard and strong it feels like bone. they're famous for crushing foxes and dingoes to death against the roof of their burrows if they try to chase them down there, and the rear end plate is what they use to do it with. (i've touched a wombat's rear end.)
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Sep 26, 2020 12:18
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wombats own
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Sep 26, 2020 12:20
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wombats are powerful, but honourable
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Sep 26, 2020 13:27
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more like your mombat
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Sep 28, 2020 10:50
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incidentally, many indigenous cultures did not eat the wombat because it was considered an unclean animal, due to living underground
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Sep 28, 2020 10:51
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pretty-faced wallaby is the species' actual official name btw
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Sep 29, 2020 00:51
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Tace Vim posted:I did not know this... interesting
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Sep 29, 2020 11:23
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echidnas are lovely their mating ritual involves several males following a female in a conga line for literally miles on end over several days. when she's ready to mate, she climbs a tree and the males parade in a circle around the base of the trunk until she chooses which one to make love to. if none of them please her, she curls up in a ball and well, that's the end of it
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