Three photos: team selfie in front of a wombat street sign. Echidna at the side of the street. Wallaby next to bush.
The Australian fauna is very exciting and I had the pleasure of meeting many animals😍🦘 Wallabys & kangaroos are frequent visitors. On 22nd of October was #WorldWombatDay and we celebrated it with a teamselfie🤳My highlight was the #Enchidna having breakfast at the side on the road - poor ants 😢🐜
black & white book illustration of Dumpy, a pet wombat described in the book, sitting in his box with his blanket eating
For #WorldWombatDay on a #WombatWednesday :
Dumpy the #Wombat, from Louisa Anne Meredith's _Tasmanian friends and foes : feathered, furred, and finned; a family chronicle of country life, nature history, and veritable adventure_ (1881) p. 53.
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Resharing for #WorldWombatDay on a #WombatWednesday
Resharing for #WorldWombatDay on a #WombatWednesday
Resharing for #WorldWombatDay on a #WombatWednesday
From Tassie - for #WorldWombatDay
It's #WorldWombatDay!
Did you know:
🐾 A group of wombats is called a wisdom
💩 They have cube-shaped poop to mark their territory without it rolling away
🌏 Their underground homes are so big they can be seen from space
💡 They glow in the dark under UV light
What surprised you about these 🇦🇺 icons?
»Wäre es nicht schön, wenn der Frankfurter Zoo ein Wombat-Pärchen erwerben könnte? Ich kann mich an diese freundlichen und rundlichen Tiere mit viel Identifikation aus meiner Kindheit erinnern und wäre sehr froh, wenn ich sie wiedersehen dürfte.« — Adorno 1965 an Bernhard Grzimek
#worldwombatday
Hoera.
Today is World Wombat Day. Celebrate with this little Grüntyers ditty over the same made after we saw some in Tasmania.
#worldwombatday #wombat #australia #singersongwriter #vombatus #australianwildlife
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_mV...
🐾 Hoy celebramos el Día Mundial del #Wombat 🦴🇦🇺
✨ Características de este marsupial único:
→ Vive en Australia 🐨
→ Cava madrigueras de hasta 30 m de largo ⛏️
→ Sus heces son cúbicas 🔲
→ Puede correr hasta 40 km/h 🏃♂️💨
💚 Protejamos su hábitat y biodiversidad
#WorldWombatDay
The stars have aligned so that #WorldWombatDay falls on #WombatWednesday this year.
Congratulations to #wombats everywhere, for:
🍑A butt that can crush predators to death.
🦷Ever-growing teeth that never wear down.
🧊The ability to poop cubes (so they don't roll off things).
🔵Glorious roundness.
Everybody let's celebrate nature's main battle tank, the wombat, on #WorldWombatDay !!!
www.parks.vic.gov.au/news/2025/10...
🐾 Happy #WorldWombatDay!
Did you know wombats use their tough, cartilage-rich butts for protection? When threatened, they dive into a burrow and block the entrance with their backside, making it hard for predators to attack them.
草原で寄り添って過ごすウォンバットのお母さんと子ども。
#世界ウォンバットの日
ウォンバットたちがどうか幸せでありますように。
この先の未来にも、ウォンバットや動物たちの住処となる自然があり続けますように。
#ウォンバット #wombat
#worldwombatday
#１日１ウォン
It’s #WorldWombatDay!
We’re extremely fond of these marsupials around here and happy for any opportunity to celebrate them. Whether it’s a common wombat, a hairy-nosed wombat or a bare-nosed wombat, we think they’re all neat.
Thus, behold an array of wombat illustrations!
#BookRecommendation for #WorldWombatDay:
Rossetti's #Wombat: Pre-Raphaelites and Australian Animals in Victorian London (2008)
amzn.to/3QH12B3 via #AmazonAssociate
For #WorldWombatDay:
“O Uommibatto” :
How the Pre-Raphaelites Became Obsessed with the Wombat
via @publicdomainrev.bsky.social
publicdomainreview.org/essay/o-uomm...
#WombatDay
Digitized image of a book illustration: The Wombat, color plate from Gerard Krefft, The Mammals of Australia, 1871. "Illustrated by Miss Harriett Scott, and Mrs. Helena Forde." (aka sisters Harriet Scott Morgan and Helena Scott Forde) Image: single specimen sitting in side profile in native grassy landscape Species ID: Common Wombat (Vombatus ursinus)
Happy #WorldwombatDay!
Here's the wombat from Gerard Krefft's The Mammals of Australia, 1871. All plates were done by Australian sisters Harriet & Helena Scott - this one is credited to Harriet.
🆔: Common Wombat (Vombatus ursinus)
nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3362...
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a greyish-brown wombat on sand in front of a blurred background with slightly visible green plants
[They also ask, "Why are Wombats?" Wombats would call that one just foolish. They feel that if there is going to be anything at all, there must be Wombats. They set great store by the fact that they are the only animals on earth who are Wombats. --How To Attract the Wombat #WorldWombatDay]
[Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, was a man devoted to his wombat. #WorldWombatDay]
An Accidental Hero: A Mostly True Wombat Story by Laura Roettiger & Debbie Palen
Happy #WorldWombatDay from my wonderful friends at #PictureBookGold who 🥳 book joy honoring our accidental hero Wombat who rescued other animals during the 20219-2020 fires AN ACCIDENTAL HERO: A MOSTLY TRUE WOMBAT STORY
Smiling white woman with red curls under a beanie squatting on her heels with one hand on the bum of a solid little wombat, looking up from its plastic food bowl with an inscrutable expression. They are in a dirt enclosure with a low concrete kerb around it, surrounded by eucalyptus trees.
Apparently it’s #WorldWombatDay so here once again is a gratuitous bit of fuzzy/chonky joy: me & Fred the wombat on one of the happiest days of my life (Cleland Wildlife Park, Adelaide hills, almost 5 years ago).
A picture of a wombat being held in my arms
Having another looking around here on #WorldWombatDay, so I might as well contribute a picture of Lenny. This was a picture from when he was still young and in care. I hope he’s faring well out in the Tasmanian wilderness
Your annual reminder that it is the most important day in the calendar - World Wombat Day!
KNOW YOUR WOMBATS!
#wombat #worldwombatday
