wombat
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Photos from that time show her posing with a kangaroo and a wombat and being embraced by a giant koala.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
"I think everyone who would have seen that would have thought, leave the baby wombat alone. Leave it with its mum," she told 7News.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2025
"It's just unacceptable, and we're glad she's being called to account. Snatching a screaming baby wombat from their mother is not just appalling, it's very possibly illegal under state or national laws," Ms Milthrope said.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2025
“In going through the literature,” Dr. Nimmo said, “there was quite a lot of evidence that species other than wombats were regularly using wombat burrows.”
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2024
The giant diprotodon, a two-and-a-half-ton wombat, roamed the forests.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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