What is Wombat?
{{Automatic taxobox | name = Wombat<ref name=msw3>{{MSW3 Diprotodontia|pages=43–44|id=11000006}}</ref> | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Early Miocene|Recent}} | image = Vombatus ursinus -Maria Island National Park.jpg | image_caption = Common wombat <br>[[Maria Island]], Tasmania | taxon = Vombatidae | authority = [[Gilbert Thomas Burnett|Burnett]], 1829 | subdivision_ranks = [[Genus|Genera]] and [[Species]] | subdivision = * ''[[Vombatus]]'' ** ''[[Common Wombat|Vombatus ursinus]]'' * ''[[Lasiorhinus]]'' ** ''[[Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat|Lasiorhinus latifrons]]'' ** ''[[Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat|Lasiorhinus krefftii]]'' * †''[[Rhizophascolomus]]'' * †''[[Phascolonus]]'' * †''[[Warendja]]''<!-- Palaeontology50 p0811 --> * †''[[Ramasayia]]'' }} [[Image:Haarnasenwombat (Lasiorhinus krefftii).jpg|thumb|200px|A southern hairy-nosed wombat (''Lasiorhinus latifrons'').]] A '''wombat''' is a [[marsupial]] in the [[family (biology)|family]] '''Vombatidae'''. It lives in the [[Australian]] [[eucalyptus|eucalypt]] forests. There are two [[genera]] with three living wombat [[species]]; the [[common wombat]] and the hairy-nosed wombats. It is a medium-sized [[animal]] that makes a [[burrow]] by digging holes in the [[ground]]. Wombats are usually around a metre (40&nbsp;in) long when they are fully grown. It is a kind of animal known as a [[marsupial]] because it has a [[pouch]] on its belly that holds its young, although it faces back instead of forward like most marsupials. Having the pouch face backwards prevents dirt from building up in the pouch and hitting the offspring in the face when digging. When its young are born they spend some time growing in their mother's pouch before going into the world. Wombats are [[herbivore]]s. They eat [[plant]]s, [[root]]s, and [[grass]]es. They are [[nocturnal]] which means they sleep in the [[day]] and come out at [[wikt:night|night]]. Some wombats have thick brown [[fur]] and very small [[ear]]s. They can weigh fr