#wombat behavior

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As we came around a bend...it looked like a large wombat was somersaulting down the road. It wasn’t. It was a large female, dead, her head crushed, presumably by the truck in front of us. Her baby – about ten months old perhaps –  was frantically pushing his nose under her body, heaving her up and rolling her over and over down the road. We stayed and watched. I was crying by then, and so was Bryan. It  took  about  40  minutes  for  the  baby  to  roll  and  shove  and push his mother to their hole. He managed to get her just inside, then clambered in himself. I know we shouldn’t anthropomorphise. But I have no doubt the baby hoped that if he could just get his mother back to  their  burrow,  if they could sleep during the day, when he woke up the next night it would all be better.

Jackie French https://taswildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/How-to-Speak-Wombat.pdf