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2 unusual facts about Wombat


BTQ

Within the same decade, BTQ was also a major production house for children's television - hosting popular shows as Wombat, Now You See It, Family Feud, Play Your Cards Right and Seven's Super Saturday featuring Agro (puppet).

The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular

The Brumbies are too quick for the riders and, when it becomes too steep and dangerous with Wombat holes (burrows, where a horse could break a leg), all riders stop short of the dangerous descent — apart from Jim, who continues to chase the Brumby herd - finally bringing the herd (including the colt) back to John Conroy's property.


Bylong Valley

Traveling in this scenic valley reveals its cultural heritage as well as springing up surprises like sightings of wombats, wallabies and kangaroos—sometimes in front of your car!

Gerroa, New South Wales

Possums, wombats and falcons as well as many other indigenous animals may be seen near the town.

Greenpatch Point

Greenpatch is home to many different kinds of Australian native flora and fauna, including kangaroos, kookaburras, rosellas, lorikeets, wombats and many more.

IGUANA Computing

Independent Group of Unix-Alikes and Networking Activists (IGUANA) are developers of the Wombat system.

Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne

The Society received in 1800 the country's first specimens of the wombat and the duck-billed platypus from John Hunter, Governor of New South Wales and honorary member of the Lit and Phil.

Mount Worth State Park

The wet, mountain rainforest of Mountain Ash (with at least one specimen 90 metres tall, 7 metres wide and approaching 300 years old), Blackwood and Mountain Grey Gum supports a wide variety of plants and animals, such as the tree ferns, wombat, possum, platypus, Crimson Rosella, lyrebird and many others.

Pleistocene megafauna

Pleistocene Australia supported large Short-faced kangaroo (Procoptodon goliah), Diprotodon (a giant wombat), the Marsupial Lion (Thylacoleo carnifex), the flightless birds Genyornis and Dromornis, the 5-meter snake Wonambi and the giant lizard, the megalania.

Southern hairy-nosed wombat

Southern hairy-nosed wombats, along with other wombat species, select native perennial grasses and sedges, but do consume introduced pasture species, forbs, and the leaves of woody shrubs if their favoured food is not available.

Terry Denton

His own books include the Gasp! series, which has been adapted into an animated TV series of the same name (and aired on Nine Network and ABC3), the Storymaze books, which are a mix of novel and comic book, and the popular Wombat and Fox collection.

The Muddle-Headed Wombat

When he died, in 1951, Ruth changed the title to The Muddle–Headed Wombat, with Leonard Teale the first to play the part.

The Silver Brumby

Wombat (voiced by Michael Carman) - A grumpy, griping wombat who goes on a path without looking ahead and blaming both humans and animals for making his progress difficult.

The Young in Heart

Having seen Sahib's half-hearted newspaper advertisement for a job, Duncan secures one for him as a car salesman for the Flying Wombat (actually Rust Heinz's futuristic car, the Phantom Corsair).


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