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Post by vincent on Aug 17, 2018 22:43:21 GMT 10
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Post by dennisw on Aug 18, 2018 10:32:09 GMT 10
Definitely way bigger than a house cat and bigger than many dogs standing about half the size of a sheep but very solid, they also have the strength to walk straight through a rabbit proof fence like an organic bulldozer; a trait that does not endear them to farmers.
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Post by lurcherman on Feb 28, 2021 6:07:59 GMT 10
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Post by saggitarius on Feb 28, 2021 7:50:01 GMT 10
Many Australian are also surprised by the size that a fully mature adult wombat can grow. Many juveniles fall victim to road-kill each year and people wrongly surmise that the dead animals they see by the roadside is the normal size of these marsupials. (Imagine these juveniles being the size of 3 basketballs laid end to end, the head being one ball and the body two). However, the full sized one will normally come off better than a car, maybe wandering off to die later well away from the road. These animals are bigger than a boxing bag, all muscle and bone, and frequently wreck vehicles. I have seen an engine knocked off its mounts.
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Post by dennisw on Feb 28, 2021 9:04:29 GMT 10
Many Australian are also surprised by the size that a fully mature adult wombat can grow. Many juveniles fall victim to road-kill each year and people wrongly surmise that the dead animals they see by the roadside is the normal size of these marsupials. (Imagine these juveniles being the size of 3 basketballs laid end to end, the head being one ball and the body two). However, the full sized one will normally come off better than a car, maybe wandering off to die later well away from the road. These animals are bigger than a boxing bag, all muscle and bone, and frequently wreck vehicles. I have seen an engine knocked off its mounts. Hitting a wombat in a car is almost equivalent to hitting a horse or a cow but because they re so much shorter they don't fall on the car but do more damage to the front end than most other animals. Emus are also bad news so tall and such skinny legs they can be swept straight through the windscreen.
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