Bindi & Robert Irwin feature - Wombat (Kato)- Growing Up Wild. - video Dailymotion

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Robert & Bindi Irwin showcase their wildest animals at Australia Zoo. Subscribe to The Pet Collective: http://full.sc/HbM62v Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thepetcollective Twitter: https://twitter.com/petcollectiveTV Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/petcollectivetv/ Google+: gplus.to/thepetcollective  Kato the nine year old Wombat has heaps of personality and she is one of Robert's favourite animals she was born at the Zoo and loves to got for walks on the leash around the Zoo with Robert. There are three type of Wombat the Common, Northern Hairy Nosed and Southern Hairy Nosed. They have backwards facing pouches so their babies don't get dirty when they dig. They have to always be chewing as their teeth never stop growing and they have a solid bottom which they use to protect themselves from predators.  Cast Robert Irwin.                      Crew; Producer: Tom Armstrong, Camera Operator: Ryan Mooney, Sound Recordist: Scott Mulready. Editor: Lucy Garrick, Graphics: Matt White.

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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.

01:55 [music]

Bindi & Robert Irwin feature - Wombat (Kato)- Growing Up Wild.

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