Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat Lasiorhinus latifrons

The Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat is native to dry scrub areas of south Southern Australia and adjacent borders with Western Australia and New South Wales.

The Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat is the smallest of the three wombat species. It is not common, but is not as rare as its relative, the Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat, which is now limited to one small area of a national park in Queensland and is one of the world's rarest land mammals and critically endangered.

Wombats are marsupials, with the young "joey" growing in the mother's pouch. Since they are burrowing animals, their pouches face backwards so the baby is not covered in soil. Wombats are mainly solitary, mainly nocturnal (sleeping in burrows by day) and territorial. They are vegetarian, eating grass and roots.