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00:11 So this is Kato and she's a wombat.
00:14 Now, wombats, they're sort of like bulldozers of the bush.
00:18 So she's nine years old.
00:20 She was actually born here at the zoo.
00:23 She weighs about 50 pounds.
00:26 And also her teeth never stop growing.
00:29 So they have to chew on a lot of things
00:32 so it doesn't just keep coming down.
00:34 To defend themselves, they've actually got...
00:37 See here on their bottom, they've got actually a hard...
00:40 Sort of like a hard bottom.
00:42 So if a predator is trying to grab them,
00:44 they'll actually push it out and it's so hard,
00:47 the predator can't get them.
00:49 You can see they don't look like they can run very fast,
00:52 but actually they can run 20 miles per hour.
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01:00 They've got a backwards-facing pouch.
01:03 That's so when they're digging their burrow,
01:05 they don't get all the sand and dirt in their pouch.
01:09 The biggest threat to wombats is normally cars.
01:13 So what they'll do is in the night,
01:15 they'll probably come out onto the road.
01:18 That's where the juiciest grass is near the road
01:21 and they'll actually sadly get hit by cars.
01:24 So there's three types of wombats.
01:26 There's the Northern hairy-nosed wombat,
01:28 the Northern hairy-nosed wombat,
01:30 and then there's also the common wombat.
01:33 But what's amazing is these guys are actually related to koalas,
01:37 which climb trees.
01:39 And of course, they don't climb trees, so it's really cool.
01:42 So I'm holding her on a lead
01:44 because she can actually go on daily walks around the zoo.
01:48 She's pretty lucky.
01:49 Where do you want to go today?
01:51 Do you want to do some exploring?
01:53 Come on, let's go over here.
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