Kurt Vogel

Wombats are native Australian or Tasmanian mammals. Like many other antipodean animals, they have strange* reproductive habits (less so than the platypus which lays green eggs and is a monotreme). They also have constantly growing incisors allowing (nay, encouraging) them to chew on bark, wood, softer rocks, etc. (Wombats are friendly, loyal, nocturnal, and not overly intelligent. Sir Everard Home reports, "In captivity it is as a rule amiable, the amiability being possibly associated with stupidity." He probably woke it from a nap.)