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Sarg
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Wombat For Ash
      #262533 - 20/03/15 01:25 PM

Ash was asking for Wombat photos & I have a few, hard to take a photo of them with out the flash or much better gear than I have as mostly seen on daylight/night fall !

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CHAPUISARMES
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Re: Wombat For Ash [Re: Sarg]
      #262534 - 20/03/15 01:45 PM

Hi Sarg,

There's nothing wrong with those photos. Most people would be more than happy with them. Well done.

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Re: Wombat For Ash [Re: CHAPUISARMES]
      #262535 - 20/03/15 02:17 PM

Well done Sarg.
You guys sure have some diiferent critters on you side of the world.

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Re: Wombat For Ash [Re: Iowa_303s]
      #262543 - 20/03/15 04:30 PM

Usually a wombat photo of one not photographed in captivity is just an indistinct grey shadow in the semi dark. Or a running blur as it dives down a hole.

Sarg, well done.

Do you have any of their holes entrances to show people? If shown to scale I think they are interesting as they are quite large.

Don't really see wombats here, but a place where I used to spotlight for rabbits near the Murray River, we used to get a lot of rabbits too, until we got bored with the numbers, used to have a lot of good wombats and wombat holes. Never took a photo, or if I did, lost in the transparency files and drawers.

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Re: Wombat For Ash [Re: NitroX]
      #262548 - 20/03/15 05:03 PM

That's a cute little critter! Nice pictures!

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Re: Wombat For Ash [Re: AkMike]
      #262553 - 20/03/15 07:30 PM

Not so cute if they are digging holes in your yard or you hit one on the road. They are quite solid and are responsible for many car crashes and a few road fatlaties in Victoria.

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Re: Wombat For Ash [Re: Rule303]
      #262556 - 20/03/15 09:32 PM

Love em! Thanks Sarg!

I've heard they're about like hitting a rock the size they are, just solid bloody muscle!

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Re: Wombat For Ash [Re: Ash]
      #262558 - 20/03/15 11:48 PM

A new animal to me, great pics!

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Re: Wombat For Ash [Re: Sville]
      #262572 - 21/03/15 02:49 AM

Their fur looks very nice - any value on the market or perhaps numbers are too low to support trapping for the fur market? They appear to have nice fur for a Canadian winter hat - for the East coast - LOL - they just got snowed upon, again.

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Sarg
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Re: Wombat For Ash [Re: DarylS]
      #262585 - 21/03/15 07:44 AM

Thank you guys, I didn't think any one would be interested other than Ash who asked for a pic !

Well these may look cute (and I think pet ones are) but quite a solid & heavy animal more so for they size
Which is like a small pig, I don't have any photos of they burrows or them near one, even thou I have seen tens of them going down them .

I was once charged by one in long grass (actually gave me a fright) I leaped over it only to be charged harder & faster, these have powerfully fore legs with strong claws (for digging) & large teeth, I had no idea they charged or what they could do when they got you !

As it turn out she had a tiny cub & when I jumped over her nearly landed on the cub, so she kept up the attack embarrassing really after being charged by Buffalo & Bantang, I never told any one till now.

These are a marsupial & have a small pouch, I suppose the young get to heavy to carry in they pouches
The hair is coarse but would make a warm hat I guess, officially protect as a Australia native, but can be killed on crop/land damage permits as numbers get high some times, like in Tassie now with the Devil numbers down to low levels !

I was going to write more, but it would turn into a National Geographic article

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Re: Wombat For Ash [Re: Sarg]
      #262588 - 21/03/15 08:17 AM

Wombats are treated like roos in many places here and shot on permit.l have had a fair few spills on quads when dropping a wheel into a burrow.I have a few 'bat pics somewhere as they are often encountered in sambar country.

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Re: Wombat For Ash [Re: gryphon]
      #262593 - 21/03/15 10:18 AM

Hair a mite coarse, eh - oh well.

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