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Field observation of daytime courtship and mating of the common wombat Vombatus ursinus.

M. A. Hughes and R. D. Hughes

Australian Mammology 28(1) 115 - 116
Published: 2006

Abstract

A pair of wombats (Vombatus ursinus) near Braidwood NSW, were observed in the early afternoon for over one hour during which time the darker and greyer animal (male) followed close (about 2 m) behind the larger, tawny furred animal (female). They followed a fixed path over a 0.25 ha area of short grass. Copulation occured 4 times with the male partly on its side at right angles acroos the hind quarters of the female.

https://doi.org/10.1071/AM06017

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