Welcome
to the

World
Wide
Wombat
Web!

Wombats are cute furry creatures from Australia. There are not nearly enough web pages about them, and this page seeks to help fill this obvious shortfall.

Wombats belong to the marsupial order of species from Australia. The other marsupials include the koala, kangaroo, wallaby, bandicoot, bilby, nabarlek, quokka, quoll, tasmanian devil, tasmanian tiger and ringtail possum. There is also one species of marsupial found in North America, the Opossum.

For information about the the three species of the wombat family and details of their lifestyle and life cycle, see the alt.animals.wombat Frequently Asked Questions list.

The northern hairy-nosed wombat is a severely endangered species and the other types are at risk too. Wombats are really much nicer creatures than koalas (too irritable when not drugged up on eucalyptus) and kangaroos (too stupid, and too tiring to watch). Why isn't anyone doing more to save the wombat?

Wombat links

Comparison between the three different species of wombat
Zoological detail on the Vombatidae family
Information about the Northern Hairy Nosed Wombat
Another name for the Northern Hairy Nosed Wombat is the Yaminon; there is a Yaminon Defence Fund charity in the USA.
Queensland Museum estimates there are only 113 Hairy Nosed Wombats left alive.
Information about the Northern Hairy Nosed Wombat (more technical)
WomLand has many pictures of wombats in zoos
Tour of Tasmania describes the common wombats that are found in Tasmania
Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary has a page on the common wombat and southern hairy nosed wombat
The BBC has a page on the common wombat.
Fourth Crossing Wildlife is a website devoted to Australian native animal conservation; see its page on "Save the Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat".
Russell the Common Wombat was a baby wombat in foster care who has now been released back into the wild.
Australian Fauna has interesting info about many native Australian species including the wombat.
Your news server may carry the discussion group alt.religion.wombats
Your news server may carry the discussion group alt.animals.wombat
ADS Astronomy Abstract Service reports the discovery of a new galaxy named Wombat I.

Pictures of wombats

Wombat Crossing - the roadsign
A winsome wombat
Friendly young wombat in the snow
Baby wombat close-ups
You can search Google or search AltaVista for more pictures of wombats.
To hear what wombats sound like, and watch clips of them moving around, you can search YouTube.

Wombat-related pages

Mister Wombat is one of at least five world-travelling wombats.
Wombania the cartoon strip about genetically engineered wombats includes a wombat information page
Polyglot linguists see how many languages have their own word for wombat!
Buy a cuddly soft toy wombat from Koala Express (who make donations to Koala preservation charities) or Aussie Things (who go from tiny up to full size replicas) or The Lost Forests which is an Australian-themed fantasty website based on a best-selling childrens book of the same name.

Not Really Wombats At All

WebWombat is an Australian search engine.
Gary and the Wombats is the name of a Long-playing R&R/R&B band and Wombat Kombat is an italian rock group!
Criminal mastermind Professor Wombat features in a university computing science exercise in cryptography.
Glory Snoopy Wombats are a Czech clan for playing the Americas Army online game. Their website features smoking, gun-toting wombats!

WOMBAT has also often been used as an acronym; in project management it means "Waste Of Money, Brains And Time". It has also been used to stand for the "Wavelength Oriented Microwave Background Analysis Team" at Berkeley and the "WOMen of Beauty And Temptation" mailing list.

This page last updated: 05-Jul-2007
Author: Jon Harley
My thanks to everyone who has sent me wombat links. If you find any other good wombat websites, please let me know by emailing me, jon@serf.org

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