Wombats Poop in Cubes

Photo credit: Dmitri Brant

Wombats are adorable. They are fantastic diggers. And they are the only animal in the world that leaves cube-shaped poop. (Everybody else does balls, tubes, or splats.)

Even more weirdly wonderful, they take the cubes of poop and arrange them into piles to mark their territory. Cubes are better than rounded shapes for this purpose because they don’t roll away.

This was not a fact that I managed to work into my new picture book, Wombat Underground, but it was so delightfully fascinating I felt I had to share it with you.