A kangaroo, a possum and a bushrat walk into a burrow: research finds wombat homes are the supermarkets of the forest
17-05-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com

A kangaroo, a possum and a bushrat walk into a burrow: research finds wombat homes are the supermarkets of the forest

Scientist discovers a cast of recurring characters using burrows in the aftermath of bushfire, after sifting through more than 700,000 imagesFirst came a picture of an inquisitive red-necked wallaby, then an image of a bare-nosed wombat, followed by a couple of shots of the wombat’s burrow with nothing else in the frame.By the time research scientist Grant Linley had looked through a further 746,670 images, he had seen 48 different species visiting the 28 wombat burrows that he had trained
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