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You will learn to hate them.

They wreck fences, and one wombat will make a dozen burrows...... Burrows big enough to bog a Landcruiser or break an axle if you hit it at speed.

I asked one of the local Parks and Wildlife blokes if there was a good way to discourage them.
He answered, ".243".

The spread into grazing country seems to be a result of Landcare tree plantings.

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Cook appraised their flesh too.

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References that I've seen equate them to rather coarse pork.

I might have to try some....... if I see some fresh ROADKILL, naturally.

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"The only logical response to an animal that lives obsessed with avoiding capture is to chase it." - Jose Ortega y Gassett

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Hit one at speed and the car/4x4 will normal spear off the road.

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Better get an old Hi-lux then..ha ha.

I ran over three ,maybe four last year.
Unavoidably and the old uterus never batted an eyelid.I wouldnt like to own a late model low slung Jap and hit one though.

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Does not matter what you are driving if one of your wheels hits the thing, especially a front wheel. Decent sized 4x4 are better as they give you more chance of putting them under the vehicle rather than the wheel. Cars or low 4x4 tend to have the front wheels lifted of the road when they hit one. Rarely do both wheels hit the road at the same time.

The missus hit one years ago coming home from work. Lucky she was driving the Mini Moke. Just spun off onto the side of the road. Took a couple of goes to kick the engine back into life-fuel thrown out of carby. Local coppers were coming past and made sure she was ok. They filed an accident report citing a Mr. Wallace Wombat as the cause and told her if they found him they would charge him with leaving the scene of an accident.

He was dead in the drain on the other side of the road.

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They have a hell of a solid butt lol. There is a cartilageous plate there. When they get chased by a dingo they run face first into the burrow and if the dingo is persistent and tries to crawl around them they have been known to kill the dingo by crushing it against the roof of the burrow.

The plate is there so when they go in the burrows the predator can scratch at their bums and not worry them.

Koalas have it too, but for sitting in trees

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Koalas are not the only Aussies that have that plate arse,you only have to take a look around the shopping centres!

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Get off the chair away from the desk and get out in the bush and enjoy life.

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