As the two small wombats might not prove sufficient for all hands I shot a big fellow which measured nearly three feet in length, and was covered with a thick hairy coat.
When I came to myself, I found that it was perfectly dark, and no sooner had I managed to reach the top of the hole than a whole herd of those wombats came sniffing round me, wondering what strange creature had got among them.
No one has ever called me narrow or humdrum, but even I felt worked up now and then at the thought of that house with the stricken wombats in it.
Extinct Marsupials Reference has been made to the Australasian Pleistocene genera Phascolonus, Diprotodon, Nototherium and Thylacoleo, whose affinities are with the wombats and phalangers.
As regards the teeth, in all cases except the wombats the number of upper incisors differs from that of the corresponding lower teeth.
Stirling indicate that in the structure of the feet this creature presents resemblances both to the wombats and the phalangers, but is nearer to the former than to the latter.
In the Wombats (Phascolomyidae) the foot is short and broad, the digits are all distinct, and the hallux is divaricated from the others.
In the Wombats there may be as many as four or five vertebrae fused together in the sacral region.
On either side is a forest, the haunt ofwombats and tree-bears, and a few paddymelons.
With the exception of wombatsor `badgers,' and an occasional kangaroo .
There are large numbers of wombats in the district, and these animals, burrowing after the fashion of rabbits, at times reach great depths, and throw up large mounds.
The feet have two syndactylous toes,[75] less marked in theWombats than in the Kangaroos and Phalangers.
Nototherium was a creature smaller than Diprotodon, but still of large size; it is believed to have been a burrowing creature, and to connect the Wombats with Diprotodon.
The palæotherium and the deinoceras, the mastodon and the mammoth, the huge giraffes and antelopes of sunnier times, succeed to the ancestral kangaroos and wombats of the secondary strata.
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