A sturdy, burrowing marsupial from Australia that looks like a stocky bear and produces cube-shaped droppings.
From Dharug (an Aboriginal Australian language) 'womba' or 'wamba,' a word used by Indigenous Australians for this animal. English borrowed the word directly in the 1700s when settlers encountered the creatures.
Wombats produce the only known cube-shaped poop in the animal kingdom—scientists believe the shape prevents it from rolling away and helps mark territory, making it nature's own clever engineering solution.
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