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Subject: Are you reading this unc!tim?
Message-ID: <6504@unc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Jan-84 09:55:16 EST
Article-I.D.: unc.6504
Posted: Fri Jan  6 09:55:16 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Jan-84 21:41:14 EST
Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
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The following is taken from a "Story Card" sent by a friend
home to Australia for the holidays.  I hope you're reading
this, unc!tim.

                     AUSTRALIAN WOMBAT
                    (Vombatus hirsutus)

     These slow and ponderous marsupials are still plentiful
in the forests of Eastern Australia.  They live on grasses
and roots and have only a single pair of upper and lower
incisors.  As all teeth are rootless, continuous growth
prevents them from being ground away.

     Wombats are speedy diggers and live in deep burrows
some 5 metres long.  They breed in early winter, the single
off-spring being carried in the pouch until December.

     These solitary, innofensive animals are of gentle
disposition and have been known to become affectionate pets.

     Wombats are partially protected under the Wildlife Act
of 1975.
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Bruce Smith, UNC-Chapel Hill
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