Common Wombat is locally common in southeastern Australia and Tasmania.
It is a large, rotund marsupial with a body length of up to 1.2m and weighing up to 35kg.
Wombats have rearward-facing pouch openings. Due to their short legs, when the young start to get reasonably large, such as the one above, the pouch becomes stretched to such an extent that it drags along the ground and having a front-facing pouch would be highly impractical as it would be constantly catching on objects when the mother moved forward.
To cope with its vegetarian diet of grass, sedges and tubers, the Wombat's teeth are rootless and grow continuously throughout its life.
Many of the Wombats at Wilson's Promontory sport colour-coded ear-tags to help researchers to easily identify individuals from a distance.
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