Friday, April 24, 2015

One of Earth's Exotic Animals Explored #10

      ONE OF THE RAREST CRITICALLY ENDANGERED                                 MAMMALS IN THE WORLD 



Northern hairy-nosed wombat burrow entrance
The Creature 
Is known as the Northern hairy - Nosed Wombat. These creatures use their enormous paws to dig into the ground to make their barrows. The wombat uses their whiskers to navigate throw their barrows narrow tunnels. The wombat furs are a brownish gray color that is relatively short haired creatures.
Wombats typically go out and explore at night, they vary rarely go out and explore during the day time.

Northern Hairy-Nosed WombatHabitat.
The Wombats lives in barrows, that they create themselves.
There are about 115 northern hairy-nosed wombats left in the wild. They all live in Epping Forest National Park in Queensland, Australia.

Food
Their diet consists mainly of various types of grasses found throughout the wild.

Interesting Facts
-one of the three species of wombat
-largest herbivorous borrowing animal
-the males and females look identical except that the males are shorter in length but thicker necks and stockier shoulders.
Northern hairy-nosed wombat with scientist-out of all the mammal the wombat uses the less amount of energy and consumes the less water out of all the mammals.

Sources
http://www.arkive.org/northern-hairy-nosed-wombat/lasiorhinus-krefftii/

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