Wombat says hello on snowy mountain path in Tasmania

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/06/wombat-says-hello-on-snowy-mou.html

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Possibly the most amazing fact about these animals is that they literally shit bricks.

poop

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I saw 4 or 5 wombats, and not one of them said hello.

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Diary of a Wombat, by Jackie French.
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Perambulating wombat has better lane etiquette than most human pedestrians.

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The bulldozer of the bush.

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So that’s where stock cubes come from?

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Wombats are greedy little sods,* so it was probably hoping the photographer had snacks.

* In my admittedly limited experience (N = 1)

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Wombat? Singular? I count four! :wink:

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YOU’LL NEVER BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT!

Smash cut to an over the shoulder shot of Werner Herzog listening to the audio.

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Cute animal but why repeat the video several times and do we really need all those hashtags?

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… but did that one perform a mercy killing on an ancient hyena god?

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Digger FTW!!!

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As much as I’d want to give the wombat snacks, I’d refrain lest it later go hungry waiting for humans to feed it.

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They also crush enemies to death with their armoured bums.

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My Ozzy friend calls them horizontal koalas.

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Yeah, well, it hasn’t got its nose buried in a smartphone, checking its Facebook/Instagram/TicTok/Reddit feeds…

I always wondered where the expression “shit a brick” came from!

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