Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat Front, showing claws | Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat Doing Pre-flight Checks | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Mammals (Mammalia) | ||||
Order: | Kangaroos & Wombats (Diprotodontia) | ||||
Family: | Wombat (Vombatidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons) | ||||
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Thank you Alan Melville & (RudyNature) for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Nocturnal, but can rarely come out in the day to warm in the sun. They vary in colour from dusky brown to dark grey. They often have a light grey patch on the nose as well as eye highlights (above and below the eye). Very fast runners, but don't get much nutrition out of their grass feed, so best not to disturb them. Baby wombats are called "Pinkies" as they don't have any hair. They are only ever seen due to the mothers being killed and people removing the babies to try and save them. | |||||
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