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Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat — printable fact sheet
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Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat
Lasiorhinus krefftii
The northern hairy-nosed wombat is one of the rarest mammals on Earth. For decades the entire species existed in a single patch of ground — Epping Forest National Park in Queensland, a few square kilometres of it — and the population fell to somewhere around thirty animals, a le…
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- Fewer than 350 Northern Hairy-nosed Wombats remain in the wild, making them one of the rarest mammals on Earth.
- For decades the entire species lived in one small patch of Queensland, and fell to roughly thirty animals. A predator-proof fence was built only after dingoes killed a large share of the survivors. Its pouch faces backwards so digging does not fill it with dirt, and its cartilage-armoured rump plugs the burrow behind it. It still makes the cube-shaped droppings unique to wombats.
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