Prev
Wombat - Melbourne Zoo April 2013
Next
Prev
Peacock
Elephant Research Station - Melbourne Zoo April 2013
Zoopermarket - Melbourne Zoo April 2013
Wombat - Melbourne Zoo April 2013
Razor-billed Curassow - Melbourne Zoo April 2013
Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat - Melbourne Zoo April 2013
Platypus - Melbourne Zoo April 2013
Next
zooboy28

Wombat - Melbourne Zoo April 2013

  • Media owner zooboy28
  • Date added
Melbourne Zoo April 2013

This wombat was doing what wombats do best, sleeping in a log. The log was in a small pen adjacent to the agouti and brown bear enclosures.

I'm not sure what kind of wombat this is, as there are three possibilities - Southern Hairy-nosed, Common or Tasmanian. Melbourne has all three.

ID appreciated.
Click to expand...
zooboy28
Melbourne Zoo April 2013

This wombat was doing what wombats do best, sleeping in a log. The log was in a small pen adjacent to the agouti and brown bear enclosures.

I\'m not sure what kind of wombat this is, as there are three possibilities - Southern Hairy-nosed, Common or Tasmanian. Melbourne has all three.

ID appreciated.
 
P
Chlidonias said:
I say southern hairy-nosed wombat
Click to expand...

I thinks it's a common going on the exhibit that it's in. The southern hairy-nosed wombats are all up in the Australian bush area. I've seen a wombat in this enclosure and if it's still the same one than it's definitely a common wombat.
 
zooboy28
PAT said:
I thinks it's a common going on the exhibit that it's in. The southern hairy.-nosed wombats are all up in the Australian bush area. I've seen a wombat in this enclosure and if it's still the same one than it's definitely a common wombat.
Click to expand...

It didn't come out of the log at all, so I can't really say if it was any bigger than the Southern Hairy-noses I saw in the Australian section. It does seem to be a bit "greyer", the others were much browner, but that could be the light in the photo.
 
Hix
It's a Hairynose.

:p

Hix
 
Chlidonias
zooboy28 said:
It does seem to be a bit "greyer", the others were much browner, but that could be the light in the photo.
Click to expand...
commons and hairy-noses look quite different. Commons have big round teddy-bear heads; hairy-noses have squared-off sort-of-piggy-snouted heads with bigger ears.
 
zooboy28
Chlidonias said:
commons and hairy-noses look quite different. Commons have big round teddy-bear heads; hairy-noses have squared-off sort-of-piggy-snouted heads with bigger ears.
Click to expand...

OK, this one does have a rather "hit by a bus" face, so I'll go with hairy-nose then. The Zoo apparently has four hairy-noses, which means I saw all on this visit, as I saw three more in the Australian section.
 

Media information

Category
Melbourne Zoo
Added by
zooboy28
Date added
View count
1,043
Comment count
7
Rating
0.00 star(s) 0 ratings

Share this media

Back
Top