For no particular reason, October 22 is Wombat Day in Australia. Like so many Australian animals, wombats are marsupials. They are also burrowers and have the distinction of having a rear-facing pouch that doesn’t fill with soil as they dig.

There seems to be a lot of discussion as to the name of  group of wombats.  My personal favorite is a wisdom, however, it is also variously known as a colony or a mob.

They also have cube shaped scat.

Happy Wombat Day.

This photograph of a wombat was taken by JJ Harrison and is licensed under the Creative Commons Atrribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.  It is a featured picture which means that it has been identified as one of the finest images on the English Wikipedia, adding significantly to its accompanying article.