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I believe you already know the news of Australian wildfire. The fire in the Australian fire does not appear to be decreasing. The area affected this time reached a staggering 100,000 square kilometers, equivalent to the land area of a British land. Chris Dickman, an ecologist at the University of Sydney, estimates that 1 billion animals have been killed in Australian wildfires. Netizens from all countries are anxious.
The non-profit organization International Humanitarian Association (Humane Society International) told the Guardian that they found on the island of Kangaroo Thousands of koalas, kangaroos, baby kangaroos, and bird corpses. Erica Martin, the charity’s executive officer, said: “The scene is like the end of the world.”
Australian Fire @newyorktimes
However, there is a kind of animal that has a history of surviving the mountain fire, and they can also provide a refuge for luxury animals in the mansion. Who is this hero?
In fact, they are wombats. (wombat) .
We all know that koalas are really badly burned this time. But the wombat with one word less became the big brother of koalas and other animals.
Wombat is a large marsupial herbivore that looks more like a Godzilla chinchilla. Even in the baggy period with many adorable things, they are especially heavy … big. They can weigh between 20 kg and 30 kg. In the Miocene, Australia also had wombats the size of rhinos, and were giants with pouches.
Wombats and koalas are one name different. In fact, their blood relationship and life habits are very close. Their common ancestor is the double-toothed beast. >. Like koalas, they also live a low-energy life, sleep during the day, and go out at night. Look, it doesn’t get angry when you touch its buttocks during the day, and you can fall asleep 1 second in front of the camera.
They take poop for 14 days at a time, less frequently than the sloths we introduced earlier.
Don’t make a mistake. Although the wombat has low energy consumption, if you really want to run, the speed can reach 40 kilometers per hour, and it may be overspeed in some communities.
Wombat’s skill is on its butt. First, it can pull out a poop of cubes. This will be explained later.
Second, Wombat has Iron Man-like ass. This is not a metaphor but an objective description.
Wombats have cartilage in their buttocks, so when they feel threatened, they are all predators pierced into the hole with steel buttocks. (Wombat’s predators are usually Australian wild dogs) . Because their buttocks are hard, they have no tail to bite, and they don’t feel good to touch, predators generally have no choice but to walk away. Wow, if you see the wombat’s ass facing you, then it is really angry.
Wombat also loves to tickle belly der, super sticky der.
Look at this little guy named George, whose mother was killed by a car and was raised artificially in an Australian reptile park. It is inseparable from the shoveling officer.
George is so obedient that he drills childcare bags by himself. The shoveler can take it away, and it’s almost illegal.
However, Wombat still has a strong sense of territory after sexual maturity, and his temper is not very good. A big function of their cube poop is to mark the territory (the square is not easy to be carried away by shit shells) .
However, this does not prevent the animals from going to the wombat’s house to avoid disaster. This is mainly because … the wombat lives in a mansion.
Oh yes, wombat’s secondOne skill point is digging. They are natural digging experts. Look at their claws. This claw is destined to be a ground mill. They can dig a hole of 1 meter a day. Because they particularly like digging, their childcare bags are opened backwards (butt) to prevent children from eating soil.
Wombat’s underground caves are large and complex, similar to bomb shelters.
A simple 3D model of a wombat underground cave @Mike Swinbourne / University of Adelaide ’s School of Biological Sciences
A 2012 study of hairy-nosed wombats in (Journal of Zoology) published in the Journal of Zoology found that wombats Luxury mansion covers an average area of 1.72 million square meters. (measured by wombat wearing a GPS collar) , with 28 entrances . It is estimated that a taxi will be needed from the east to the west of the Wombat’s house.
The funniest thing is that black-footed rock kangaroos enter and leave the wombat’s house more often than wombat kumamoto bears. There were 1,795 visits in 8 weeks, an average of 32 times a day. I’m afraid it’s not for WIFI.
Black-footed Rock Kangaroo
Wombats tolerate many animals to play at home, but there is one animal that is particularly unpopular, and that is the fox.
(Australian Natural History Series) has introduced that researchers have found that foxes have been swept out of holes by wombats The skulls of foxes and dogs were also found in bear caves. Probably the fox is farting but it smells bad. (Fog) .
References Journal of Zoology etc.
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