Wombats’ Deadly Bums: How They Use Their ‘Skull-Crushing’ Rumps to Fight, Play and Flirt
4th November 2020
The marsupials’ bums are made up of four plates fused together and surrounded by cartilage, fat, skin and fur. Alyce Swinbourne, an expert in wombat bottoms from the University of Adelaide, says wombats will use their backside to “plug” up their burrows, stopping predators entering and protecting softer areas of their anatomy.
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