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El wombat es un animal herbívoro que habita únicamente en Australia. Son marsupiales pero, a diferencia de muchos que integran este grupo, tienen la bolsa en la espalda para no lastimar a sus crías cuando excavan.
Un ejemplar adulto puede llegar a medir un metro de largo y pesar hasta 40 kilos. Tienen pies anchos y fuertes con grandes garras. Viven entre 5 y 15 años, aunque el más longevo de la historia vivió 32.
Existen tres tipos: el nariz descubierta, el nariz peluda del sur y el nariz peluda del norte. Todos suelen ser nocturnos aunque en ocasiones salen de las madrigueras para exponerse al sol, en especial cuando hace mucho frío.
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Su apariencia engaña. Se caracterizan por ser peludos y tener un cuerpo ancho. Sin embargo, pueden correr hasta a 40 kilómetros por hora, superando a un humano promedio. Por lo general, utilizan este recurso cuando se sienten amenazados.
Otro rasgo llamativo es que defecan en forma cúbica y su digestión puede tardar hasta 14 días. Al tener poco rango visual, los expertos creen que apilan sus heces para marcar territorio y guiarse a través del olfato.
Cientificos descubrieron que en el tramo final de su intestino, las heces cambiaron de un estado líquido a un estado sólido compuesto de cubos separados de 2 centímetros de longitud.Este cambio de forma se debió a las propiedades elásticas de la pared intestinal: los científicos vaciaron el intestino de un wombat y lo inflaron con un globo largo, y de esa forma descubrieron que la tensión local varía del 20% en las esquinas del cubo al 75% en sus bordes. Fue así que descubrieron que el intestino se estira preferentemente en las paredes para facilitar la formación del cubo.
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Además, durante los incendios forestales, estos animales permiten que otras especies se refugien en sus madrigueras porque estas se mantienen frescas y alejadas del peligro.
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The name wombat comes from the now nearly extinct Dharug language spok by the aboriginal Dharug people, who originally inhabited the Sydney area.
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It was first recorded in January 1798, wh John Price and James Wilson, a white man who had adopted aboriginal ways, visited the area of what is now Bargo, New South Wales. Price wrote: We saw several sorts of dung of differt animals, one of which Wilson called a 'Whom-batt', which is an animal about 20 inches [51 cm] high, with short legs and a thick body with a large head, round ears, and very small eyes; is very fat, and has much the appearance of a badger.
Wombats were oft called badgers by early settlers because of their size and habits. Because of this, localities such as Badger Creek, Victoria, and Badger Corner, Tasmania, were named after the wombat.
The spelling wt through many variants over the years, including wambat, whombat, womat, wombach, and womback, possibly reflecting dialectal differces in the Darug language.
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Though getic studies of the Vombatidae have be undertak, evolution of the family is not well understood. Wombats are estimated to have diverged from other Australian marsupials relatively early, as long as 40 million years ago, while some estimates place divergce at around 25 million years.
Some prehistoric wombat gera greatly exceeded modern wombats in size. The largest known wombat, Phascolonus, which wt extinct approximately 40, 000 years ago,
Wombats dig extsive burrow systems with their rodt-like front teeth and powerful claws. One distinctive adaptation of wombats is their backward pouch. The advantage of a backward-facing pouch is that wh digging, the wombat does not gather soil in its pouch over its young. Although mainly crepuscular and nocturnal, wombats may also vture out to feed on cool or overcast days. They are not commonly se, but leave ample evidce of their passage, treating fces as minor inconvices to be gone through or under.
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As wombats arrange these feces to mark territories and attract mates, it is believed that the cubic shape makes them more stackable and less likely to roll, which gives this shape a biological advantage. The method by which the wombat produces them is not well understood, but it is believed that the wombat intestine stretches prefertially at the walls, with two flexible and two stiff areas around its intestines.
The adult wombat produces betwe 80 and 100, 2 cm (0.8 in) pieces of feces in a single night, and four to eight pieces each bowel movemt.
In 2019 the production of cube-shaped wombat feces was the subject of the Ig Nobel Prize for Physics, won by Patricia Yang and David Hu.
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Wombats are herbivores; their diets consist mostly of grasses, sedges, herbs, bark, and roots. Their incisor teeth somewhat resemble those of rodts (rats, mice, etc.), being adapted for gnawing tough vegetation. Like many other herbivorous mammals, they have a large diastema betwe their incisors and the cheek teeth, which are relatively simple. The dtal formula of wombats is 1.0.1.4 1.0.1.4 × 2 = 24.
Wombats' fur can vary from a sandy colour to brown, or from grey to black. All three known extant species average around 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) in lgth and weigh betwe 20 and 35 kg (44 and 77 lb).
All species have well-developed pouches, which the young leave after about six to sev months. Wombats are weaned after 15 months, and are sexually mature at 18 months.
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Wombats have an extraordinarily slow metabolism, taking around 8 to 14 days to complete digestion, which aids their survival in arid conditions.
Wombats defd home territories ctred on their burrows, and they react aggressively to intruders. The common wombat occupies a range of up to 23 ha (57 acres), while the hairy-nosed species have much smaller ranges, of no more than 4 ha (10 acres).
Dingos and Tasmanian devils prey on wombats. Extinct predators were likely to have included Thylacoleo and possibly the thylacine (Tasmanian tiger). Their primary defce is their toughed rear hide, with most of the posterior made of cartilage. This, combined with its lack of a meaningful tail, makes it difficult for any predator that follows the wombat into its tunnel to bite and injure its target. Wh attacked, wombats dive into a nearby tunnel, using their rumps to block a pursuing attacker.
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According to an urban legd, wombats sometimes allow an intruder to force its head over the wombat's back, and th use its powerful legs to crush the skull of the predator against the roof of the tunnel. However, there is no evidce to support this.
Wombats are gerally quiet animals. Bare-nosed wombats can make a number of differt sounds, more than the hairy-nosed wombats. Wombats td to be more vocal during mating season. Wh angered, they can make hissing sounds. Their call sounds somewhat like a pig's squeal. They can also make grunting noises, a low growl, a hoarse cough, and a clicking noise.
Depictions of the animals in rock art are exceptionally rare, though examples estimated to be up to 4, 000 years old have be discovered in Wollemi National Park.
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The wombat is depicted in aboriginal Dreamtime as an animal of little worth. The mainland stories tell of the wombat as originating from a person named Warre whose head had be flatted by a stone and tail amputated as punishmt for selfishness. In contrast, the Tasmanian aboriginal story first recorded in 1830 tells of the wombat (known as the drogedy or publedina) the great spirit Moihernee had asked hunters to leave alone. In both cases, the wombat is regarded as having be banished to its burrowing habitat.
Estimates of wombat distribution prior to European settlemt are that numbers of all three surviving species were prolific and that they covered a range more than t times greater than that of today.
After the ship Sydney Cove ran aground on Clarke Island in February 1797, the crew of the salvage ship, Francis, discovered wombats on the island.
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Matthew Flinders, who was travelling on board the Francis on its third and final salvage trip, also decided to take a wombat specim from the island to Port Jackson. Governor John Hunter later st the animal's corpse to Joseph Banks at the Literary and Philosophical Society
Humans can receive puncture wounds from wombat claws, as well as bites. Startled wombats can also charge humans and bowl them over,
With the attdant risks of brok bones from the fall. One naturalist, Harry Frauca, once received a bite 2 cm (0.8 in) deep into the flesh of his leg—through a rubber boot, trousers and thick wooll socks.
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A UK newspaper, The Indepdt, reported that on 6 April 2010, a 59-year-old man from rural Victoria state was mauled by a wombat (thought to have be
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