Happy Wombat Wednesday!! 6 hrs til 2009
Baby "Goldie", napping on Mom "Kambora" (hairy nosed wombat)
They say mama wombat, Kambor always sleeps like this - baby, Goldie is too big now to get into the pouch. A hairy-nosed wombat is a marsupial native to Australia.
This is the first birth of a wombat at Brookfield Zoo since 1993. Baby wombats called 'joeys' are about the size of a jelly bean at birth. They grow in the mother's pouch for several months before they finally emerge into the outside world.
Dad, Carver (not shown) was born at Brookfield Zoo in 1975.
Happy Wombat Wednesday!! 6 hrs til 2009
Baby "Goldie", napping on Mom "Kambora" (hairy nosed wombat)
They say mama wombat, Kambor always sleeps like this - baby, Goldie is too big now to get into the pouch. A hairy-nosed wombat is a marsupial native to Australia.
This is the first birth of a wombat at Brookfield Zoo since 1993. Baby wombats called 'joeys' are about the size of a jelly bean at birth. They grow in the mother's pouch for several months before they finally emerge into the outside world.
Dad, Carver (not shown) was born at Brookfield Zoo in 1975.