myniamh:shickalenia:wigglytuffitout:thingsareswinging:fluffmugger:no nonono. Be not afraid of the wo
myniamh:shickalenia:wigglytuffitout:thingsareswinging:fluffmugger:no nonono. Be not afraid of the wombat. They are awesome. They’re like groundhogs, if groundhogs were furry tanks. The claws are for digging, and they’re complete herbivores. Unlike most australian wildlife they don’t fart fire or shoot spines or turn into velociraptors as a protective measure, they just have this HUGE backside of solid bone. Seriously. When a predator threatens their burrow they just crouch down face-first and when said predator tries to get over that gigantic bony arse to feast on sweet wombat face they just STAND UP and crush that fucker against the roof. You also do not want to hit one with your car. It’s like running over a fucking boulder. I’ve seen wombat strikes destroy the entire undercarriage of a car, rip out the sump, fuck up the axles and destroy the suspension and the goddamn wombat just walked off. Forget that “deer destroyed my front end” shit, a wombat will give you a complete write-off. (This is also why you get the fuck out of their way if you see one running towards you. You do not want to get hit by that bastard).But they generally just wander around like comically shaped foot-rests, eating roots and enjoying the night air. They can run, but don’t like to, and generally could not give two shits about humans because who cares about two-legs when you have an arse that can destroy utes. And they poop rectangles.“don’t be afraid!”“they can destroy a car!”“don’t be afraid!”#fucking australiaJUST destroying a car is getting off light in australia. do you know that the platypus has i think 27 different kinds of venoms/toxins in it, some of which closely mimic toxins used by other species like fuckin rattlesnakes and such which evolutionary biologists are quite honestly a little baffled by? and that is the goofy platypus. so yeah, it’s just destroying carss, no big, thanks wombat.also they poop rectanglesI don’t know about square poo but I do know they like to deposit them on the top of small rocks, like the icing on a stony cupcake. -- source link