Guess what this animal is? It's as big as a pig and lives in South Eastern Australia and in Tasmania.
It's a Marsupial with an inverted pouch, because it's a digger...
It's a herbivore with a very slooooooooow metabolism... it takes 14 days for it to complete digestion! It has a big brain...it's very smart and moves slowly (all that weight on those short legs!).
It's butt (posterior) is made of cartilage, so when it's attacked by a Dingo or a Tasmanian Devil, it burrows into a nearby tunnel and presents his impenetrable posterior; and kicks their preditor's head in with those stubby but poweful legs!
At times they are feeling crabby or in a bad mood.
It's rarely seen in nature , as it's a nocturnal animal, but it leaves distinctive cubic faeces in it's path.
It's name starts with a "W" and rhymes with Wazzat!
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