#Wombat Day

[arthistoryanimalia]

Happy #WombatDay!

Here's the wombat from Gerard Krefft's The Mammals of Australia, 1871. All the book plates were done by Australian sisters Harriet & Helena Scott - this one is credited to Harriet.

🆔: Common Wombat (Vombatus ursinus)

See all the plates here:

The Australian Museum has lots of info on the Scott sisters' prolific natural history illustration careers here:

[whiskingskin]

[juliehowlin]

Wombats

The most famous fictional wombat is probably "Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat" the unofficial mascot of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.

10 things you might not know about wombats:

[wombywoo]

sick bby 🤧

[amnhnyc]

It’s Fossil Friday! Standing about 6 ft (1.8 m), Diprotodon australis is one of the largest marsupials to have ever lived. Distantly related to living wombats, this massive herbivore was common throughout Australia until the end of the last Ice Age some 25,000 years ago. The specimen on display at the Museum was found in 1893. Visiting this weekend? You can see this fossil in the Hall of Primitive Mammals!

Photo: E. Louis/ © AMNH

[icantalk710]

🎶 And please allow me to be your anti-depressant

I too am prescribed as freely as any decongestaaaant 💇🏽‍♂️

[apnourry]

tired asf workouts tho

[aunti-christ-ine]

Yay🤗A day to honor that Australian cutie pie!

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Common Wombat (Vombatus ursinus)

(Photo by Marco Tomasin)

Conservation Status- Least Concern

Habitat- Southeastern Australia

Size (Weight/Length)- 40 kg; 1 m

Diet- Grasses; Moss; Roots; Fungi; Leaves

Cool Facts- The common wombat is a thick bodied, helpful marsupial. These ecological engineers aid in stirring up forest soils while digging burrows, assisting greatly in plant growth. Their burrows provide shelter for a variety of other species, ranging from echidnas to wallabies to koalas and reptiles. During the 2020 Australia brushfires,  thousands of animals survived the flames by taking shelter in wombat burrows. Common wombats are tolerant of their neighbors, but if annoyed or threatened they use their thick booty to crush the threat to the side of the burrow. Wombats often live in the same burrow their entire life unless forced out by humans or if the burrow is destroyed during floods.

Rating- 12/10 (A landlord that never asks for rent.)

[kimchikawaii]

Never go on a date with a wombat.

Want to try for a better outcome? I have them available in my shop!

Bonus outtake pic at the end.

[no-tengo-ojos]

On this day in 1869 the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti's pet wombat Top died

Rossetti lamenting the death of his Wombat, 1869

[pushing500]

A labour mid combat?! I didn’t know that could happen. Didn’t know traders could just push one out on your doorstep. Well boys! I sure hope they at least give lil Wombat some time to heal and grow before transferring them anywhere. Surely the open road, swarming with anomaly, isn’t the best place for a sick child and wounded mother. 🥺

I was shocked by it, too!! It looked like she might have been trying to walk off the map, but then she got caught up in the fight with all the sightstealers and couldn't go anywhere before she collapsed. Mechi brought her home, and Kwahu was quick to carry Wombat to cryptosleep in the ex-Ancient Danger until we figure something out.

I know what Kwahu wants to do, but he'll have his work cut out for him trying to convince Mechi it's for the best.

[dalesramblingsblog]

Babe what's the matter you haven't even posted anything for International Wombat Day...

[subtlymelancholy]

Post-punk revival is a type of indie rock that emulates the sound of post-punk bands of the late 1970s and new wave bands of the early 1980s and has been stylistically tied to 1990s music movements such as shoegaze, Britpop, garage revival and post-hardcore. -Wikipedia

Some of the most iconic albums (in my opinion, and at least visually) of my fave genre! I might post the CD frame separately. It's a little big for my liking, but I don't love the way these look when I scale them down any more than this lol

F2U with or without credit, just don't claim as your own. tips appreciated <3 (ko-fi link)

[wombywoo]

pretending it's fall even though it was >80 degrees today 🍁🍂

[escrupulo42o]

WOMBAT TOMAS‼️‼️🗣🦅🔥 MORTAL WOMBAT⁉️🗣🔥

hes so cute i want to PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE 🤬😡

i have 3 fun facts for you today:

wombats poop in cubes and for a rally long time, no one knew how

wombats use their butt for self defence against predadors

the first drawing is right next to a very old drawing of Messi (they are friends :3)

idk what character to draw next so you can tell me if you want (pleasepleaseplease)