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Common Wombat - digging burrow

Common Wombat - digging burrow (Vombatus ursinus). South-eastern Australia. One of the world's largest burrowing mammals (and the largest burrowing marsupial) uses powerful shoulders, stout, short legs and long blunt claws to excavate tunnels up to 20 metres long.Kathie Atkinson / Auscape / ardea.com

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