The Newest, Cutest Baby Animals from the World's Zoos & Aquariums
Just today (Australia time) the Taronga Zoo unveiled their newest baby wombat. Baby Matari will be hand-reared at the zoo. In the wild, wombat moms are professional diggers and rarely take maternity leave. For this reason they have backwards facing pouches (unlike most other marsupials) to protect their young from flying dirt and rocks.
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I like the name.. Matari. Such a cute wombat!
Cutest wombat I’ve seen all day!
Awwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! 🙂
Aww, too cute. Wombats are my favorite marsupial and they are particularly cute when little :o)
Happy Birthday, Matari! What a beautiful baby you are 😀
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A lot of personality in that little wombat. Adorable.
her little teeth! the second picture just kills me. looks like a koala and a rabbit smooshed together. so cute.
Aww! I want a wombat!
What a Cutie Pie!!!
so cute! i guess the wombat is all right.
It’s smiling!
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