As has been mentioned, their defense of choice involves sealing their burrow with their butt, which has a thick cartilage shield that none of their normal predators can bite through.
He says he "plays rough". Wombats are very powerful with strong claws, they live in the ground like a rabbit. I've held one and patted one at a wildlife park, they are all muscle like a little bulldozer.
For anyone claiming animal abuse, i work with these guys and you are taught to push them back on the head with your foot when they charge you. They often get hit by cars and simply walk away, they're incredibly robust... They get up to 35kg too, this guy will grow a fair bit more
weichiang89 If your a wombat sees your car coming and you hit its backside, your car becomes a writeoff and they walk away. Wombats have buns of fucking steel.
wombats are basically bricks covered in fur they may look fluffy and squishy but those damn things are pure muscle. update: they also apparently have an armored ass which they slam into predators with enough force to fracture a dogs skull do not fuck with wombats they have weaponized twerking!! I wish I was making that up seriously look it up for yourselves.
judging by the videos i've seen seen, it looks like wombats are really playfull animals, but they seem to be really rough players too... it's amazing that something so small can be that strong
The baby wombats are very playful. When they grow up they can be super aggressive and territorial. You can't keep them as pets because they destroy everything and burrow into everything. Their teeth are so strong they can bite through lots of stuff
@@doryfishie2 The trouble is i heard it is illegal to re-release them into the wild if they have been raised in captivity only because they don't fair well at all if that happens. They will die without human assistance as adults, and don't think they have figured out yet is rehabilitation for the wild is even possible with them. The videos i have seen of them show them to adorable as babies, and then as teens and adults they have a very strong will, so they won't stop if they want something, and as you said they can chew through most household materials baring metal, ceramic, and they are like little bulldozers pushing everything in the house around, all the cupboards that are unlocked are fair game, all the shelves, cushions, towels, sheets, laundry, books, it is all going on the floor or being pushed around where they want it that day. They can bite but if they love the person they can be taught not to bite hard, but even then they will still nibble. Their front teeth are like a beavers, seem very related to me actually coming from a place with beavers, those front teeth are designed for burrowing animals, cutting through big tree roots, etc. In the wild I think they basically bulldoze all day dens, and so they do the same in your home. So once you have one it is a 25-30+ year commitment from baby to adult to raise an animal that unlike dogs, or cats, is gonna turn your house upside down on the regular, and there is not much you are gonna be able to do to stop it, cause if they don't find something to be pushing around, then something worse will happen, ie better they are pushing your linen/towel cupboards out regularly, then they decide to burrow a den into your wall, or your bed... they are social though, so they form bonds, etc...
They're an extremely dense mass of muscles and bones according to my highschool bio teacher. He may just be exaggerating but he said that getting hit by a car is more of a petty nuisance to them than anything serious.
Listen to how he sounded when he pat on him, you could hear how solid through little guy is,..it's too hilarious, he's so determined,..caretaker is like,."dude, I'm trying to work here, I'm working right now!, I don't have time to play around, we'll play later!", and it's so funny, little guy was like, I'm gonna be eating later, I won't have time, you know that, your gonna feed me!, we're having a scheduling problem!, let's play now!!, now, now, now, now, now!",..told ya'll, animals are a trip,..Godspeed, long healthy, happy life to this darlin, and all his kind, and the caretakers that care for them, whose care they're entrusted to,..
Had a friend work at the zoo with these, he said you could pretty much punch them and they would just go "oh this guy is fun" and play even rougher with you.
Aww He's so adorable. That wombat looks so cuddly. Of course, that doesn't take away from the fact that wombats are wild animals that should be respected and treated with care and caution.
Nope, they'd gladly eat us and our babies if we were below them in food chain, they're alive because we allow them to, they should respect us or perish
I spend one solid hour with my dogs everyday (before and after their dinner time). All 3 of us treasure this moment. They look forward to it much like this wombat and this person.
Cute little guy needs a friend to play with; the groundskeeper has his job to do and doesn't have time to play. Wombats are wild animals but seem like they might make good pets. No matter what, this particular wombat is adorable.
@@beeble2003 My sister runs a petting zoo in East Texas. They have 2 of them. You're right, they'll tear just about anything to pieces. But if they have plenty of space to play outside, they're pretty calm indoors. And they're surprisingly gentle with children.
Australia has really odd weather at times, so if you see someone wetting dirt or grass its usually since a hot day is to come so it helps negate some water loss.
Wombats love to play biting games so I am not sure I would hang around. When they are with each other they often bite each other but because their hides are so thick they don't really feel anything. We thin skinned humans on the the otherhand tend to bleed easily.
It probably also has something to do with keeping the wombat cool enough. Watering the dirt cools it down, gives the lil guy something to dig comfortably.
It must have been not so funny, with naked legs and wombat claws that can dig up to 1m³ of earth out of the ground in one night. But for the "outstanding watcher" it looks cute!
Sure they're playful but they are aggressive whilst doing so, My friends dad worked with them his co-worker was playing with one & it bit the tip of his finger off, you could see the bone
@@Stuart267 Sorry about ur friend's dad - that's why i said i "wanting" not actually "doing" it because i have common sense and know that not all animals are of the same temperament. Not all cats are friendly, dogs, rats, hamsters, etc.... I totally get it. Altho of course there are very friendly animals of all types and i naturally would ask questions / test the waters before i ever engage in anything physical right off the jump. I have pets and they are very sweet. I tamed their asses. ; D Hope all is well in ur world dude!
@@cherish9493 Well your wiser than I am. I try & pet animals all the time, a chicken tore my fingernail out by the root. The other chickens were picking on it & I shooed them, now I understand why, the little turd
@@Stuart267 Oh no!! Not the fingernail by the root - that must've been painful. Yeah maybe u should sit this one out... maybe just sprinkle bird seed and not touch... ; D admire from afar.... love from a distance .. : D lol - hope ur fingernail healed up.
Looks like the wombat is just trying to hit him with its nose. It hasn’t used it’s claws at all. Doesn’t seem to be trying to bite either. Yes, definitely playing.
Reminds me of my cat, like, "I know you want to play and you're very cute but why must you play so rough? I'm made of soft fleshy stuff, don't you understand?!"
When my family visited Australia they went to a petting zoo that had one and my mother missed the sign where it warned interactions with the wombat but it was pretty content with her feeding it food.
Wombats confuse me. In videos I sometimes see little fuzzballs that just love to cuddle. Then wombats that want to play, sometimes rough, but still harmless. But I have also seen a video of a wombat that was a little vengeful ball of hate that nobody dared to get close to. The only animals that he was allowed to be with were those that were fast enough that he couldn't get them. I remember how he stared through a fence at people while biting through a solid stick as a display of rage. A wolverine would probably have respected him.
10yrs later still makes me cringe. Seen a dude bitten by one of these in the earlier days of Australia Zoo, he needed 8 stitches. Their teeth and claws are NOT to be fucked with lmao.
