#wombats

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[plushieanimals]

australian made wombat ~

[typhlonectes]

[apnourry]

life is great and I want a brownie🫶

[antiqueanimals]

Animal Ghosts. Edited by Claudia Clow. Illustrated by Walt Disney Productions. 1971.

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[sexyvixen7]

(Source: wombatcrossing on Instagram)

Jensen, Matt, Jared and Jake

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Mammals

Dasyuromorphia. This order is made up of carnivorous marsupials, including quolls, numbats, and the Tasmanian devil.

Diprotodontia. This order is the most specious order of marsupials, containing, among others, kangaroos, koalas, wombats, and sugar gliders.

[ningauinerd]

Happy international wombat day!

Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons) - west of Blanchetown, SA, September 2019

[alwayscaskett810]

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WombatWednesday: have you ever seen a wombat mum that looked like this? 😂

(Real wombats have back-facing pouches and usually only one joey at a time, very rarely twins.)

Charles Alexandre Lesueur, "Le Wombat" Plate XXVIII in François Péron's _Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes_ 1807-1816.

[Biodiversity Heritage Library]

[platypusesforarms]

Animals in Tasmania | David Attenborough's Tasmania (2018)

[wolfw101]

Cuddly Wombats!

[victusinveritas]

154 years ago today, Top the wombat passed away. He was the short-lived though much loved pet of the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti who, upon Top's passing, created this self-portrait in mourning with the accompanying verse:

I never reared a young wombat

To glad me with his pin-hole eye,

But when he most was sweet and fat

And tailless, he was sure to die!

More on Rossetti and company’s curious but longstanding fixation with the furry oddity that is the wombat — which they considered the “most beautiful of God’s creatures” — in our essay by Angus Trumble: https://buff.ly/2MA5As0

Tagging @tkingfisher on this.

[heymontyphotography]

"We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love...and then we return home." - Australian Aboriginal Proverb

#art

[apnourry]

❄️first snow day in 6 years❄️

[antiqueanimals]

General Zoology. Written by Mary J. Guthrie and John M. Anderson. 1957.

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