Twelve-Inch Daylesford

 

At 3.5 feet long and up to 88 pounds, wombats are the second largest marsupials (after red kangaroos). They look like furry couch potatoes, but can run as fast as humans. The collective noun for wombats is “wisdom.” (A wisdom of wombats, a mob of kangaroos, a paddle of platypus! Australian collective nouns are cool!) Wombats have teeth that never stop growing. That’s great, because their teeth won’t wear out. Wombats spend up to eight hours each night, grazing. They chomp away at native grasses, sedges, and roots of shrubs and trees. It takes a wombat four to six days to digest a meal. But, as they’re always eating, they’re always pooping. Here’s the most interesting thing about wombats: their poop is cube-shaped! It comes in handy when they use said poop to mark their territories. They actually stack their dung like really disgusting building blocks to tell other wombats to get off their lawns.