Common Wombats
(Vombatus Ursinus)

• Adult Wombat can weigh up to 45 Kg
• Closest living relative – Koala
• Wombats are marsupials & backward opening pouch.
• Generally nocturnal.
• They burrow underground as much as 20 m.
• Wombats spend between three and eight hours each night grazing on their favourite food, which is native grasses such as the tussocky 'snow grass', wallaby grass and kangaroo grass.

• A wombat can reproduce after it reaches two years of age. Mating occurs between September and December, and usually results in one offspring. The newborn wombat, which weighs only 1 g and is less than 3 cm long, has to crawl from the birth canal into the mother's pouch. This pouch faces backwards, which stops dirt and twigs getting caught in it when the mother digs. The young wombat will stay in the pouch for between seven and 10 months.