Common wombat: Built to Survive

Question 1 · multiple choice

A camera trap is being set for a Common wombat. Which habitat description gives it the best chance of success?

dry grassland, scrub, and sandy areas with grazing mammals clear slow rivers, streams, ponds, and lakes temperate forest, heath, and grassland with firm soil estuaries, mangroves, rivers, lagoons, and coastal seas

Question 2 · multiple choice

A Common wombat follows its usual feeding pattern. Which food combination should it seek?

insects, spiders, crustaceans, and small fish organic particles swallowed with sand or gathered from water fish, squid, and krill caught underwater grasses, sedges, roots, and bark

Question 3 · multiple choice

When should a documentary crew expect the most natural activity from a Common wombat?

mostly active from evening through night hunts by day using vision forages mainly by day mostly active at night

Question 4 · multiple choice

Which set of movements belongs to a Common wombat?

walks, stalks, and leaps using hydraulic pressure in the legs walks steadily and digs extensive tunnels with strong forelimbs runs and scratches on the ground and flies only short distances walks and makes short hops rather than long leaps

Question 5 · multiple choice

Which body feature gives a Common wombat a practical survival advantage?

a long tongue rapidly laps nectar while wing joints permit unusual strokes skin toxins are obtained partly from chemicals in its wild arthropod diet a backward-opening pouch keeps soil away from the joey during digging gas and liquid in shell chambers regulate buoyancy

Question 6 · multiple choice

Which family-life detail is accurate for a Common wombat?

chicks grow inside a tree cavity excavated by adults the female builds and guards a nest mound of leaves females bury eggs in gravel nests called redds one joey develops in the pouch and remains dependent after leaving it

Question 7 · multiple choice

Which social clue belongs to a Common wombat?

mostly solitary, using scent and droppings to mark areas mostly solitary and strongly territorial around burrows mostly solitary and competes around rich food sources pairs defend territories with loud calls

Question 8 · multiple choice

Which food-web connection correctly involves a Common wombat?

moves insect energy from land into aquatic food webs aerates soil and creates shelter used by other animals recycles nutrients and oxygenates seabed sediment transfers ocean nutrients to sea ice colonies and feeds predators

Question 9 · multiple choice

A Common wombat cannot simply disappear. Which combination helps it avoid or survive danger?

buries food quickly and uses strong legs in contests flies low and fast to escape danger blocks a burrow with its tough rear end and can crush an attacker against the wall uses stealth, armoured skin, powerful jaws, and a spinning roll

Question 10 · true false

True or False: A common wombat its intestines shape very dry droppings into cubes.

True False