Wombat Facts

Wombat FactsToday’s cartoon lesson on Australia, takes us to discuss the lesser popular marsupial, the wombat.

Interesting that indeed wombats poop square shaped pellets. ย They are practically blind and use their scent to find each other (no wonder Binky doesn’t bathe) so their square poop won’t fall off the log or other areas they drop it. ย And because they don’t process the vegetation they eat very well, someone decided they would make a good source of paper fiber.

For those who don’t recognize the glass wearing animal in the lower right, that is Binky a Wombie from Peter Marinacci’s webcomic Wombania. ย He says that wombies are genetically altered more intelligent wombats. ย Whenever Peter posts a cartoon with Binky I tend to act like I don’t like him. ย And Binky returns the favor if you have ever read the comments on my posts.

So yes. ย The first ugly cousin of the cute koala are wombats/wombies. ย  Well really just Binky (the rest of the wombies are cute).

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Comments

136 responses to “Wombat Facts”

  1. George Avatar

    I had been wondering about how poop could look so odd. Out here in SoCal, I’ve noticed that some of the coyote doo-doo looks all wickery like shredded wheat. It blows my mind. Bit now that you say wombat dung is fibrous, I don’t feel as oddly stupid. Right now.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Maybe you should make your own coyote poop paper and sell your cartoons on it. I won’t comment saying your cartoons are shit and I want to beat you to the joke I know is now going through your head.

      1. frigginloon Avatar

        Coyote poop by Acme Co . Beep, Beep.

          1. Red Dwyer Avatar

            That’s Suuuuuuuuuuuper Genius.

  2. Comedy Plus Avatar

    I like wombats way better. So there. You all are far more entertaing than any koalas I’ve met. I’m just saying.

    Have a terrific day. ๐Ÿ™‚

    1. Bearman Avatar

      They both sleep a bunch

      1. Binky Avatar

        Hey, we’re not hippies like the drugged-out koalas!

        1. Bearman Avatar

          True…you will get off your high horse (perch) every once in a while

          1. Binky Avatar

            We don’t have perches! We burrow underground where the temperature is much more stable.

          2. Bearman Avatar

            And to hide your face?

          3. Binky Avatar

            To hide from humans since many of them are rather nasty.

          4. Binky Avatar

            Some humans are much nastier!

          5. Bearman Avatar

            Awww that is the nicest thing you have ever said

          6. Binky Avatar

            And I even meant it!

  3. Comedy Plus Avatar

    I meant entertaining. Really I did.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I believe you..haha

  4. JerryBenedict Avatar

    I guess square poop would be much easier to clean up since it doesn’t roll all over the place!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      You would think but I don’t know many people with pet wombats.

      1. Binky Avatar

        Pet wombats are generally illegal, but there many hundreds of adopted Wombies out there. I think I should have charged for them instead of giving them away for free.

        1. Deb Avatar

          Then I’m officially ordering my next pair of Wombies for Dink and Tink befor e you do.

          1. Bearman Avatar

            Pet Koalas aren’t illegal?

          2. Deb Avatar

            Wombie are! ๐Ÿ˜‰ ๐Ÿ™‚

          3. Binky Avatar

            Wombies definitely are legal. I’m not sure about koalas.

          4. Bearman Avatar

            I don’t think they are in Australia unless they were orphaned and determined adoptable by the animal control

          5. Binky Avatar

            That’s probably the case. Sometimes orphaned wombats who cannot be released back into the wild are kept as pets.

          6. Androgoth Avatar

            I hope the pooping squares habit doesn’t catch on or my Zombies will be copying them and with the stench of their poop it will be enough to put anyone off their pancakes ๐Ÿ™

          7. Bearman Avatar

            But can you make zombie poop into dice?

  5. Mark Stokes Avatar

    Wombat poop paper? What will they stink of next? Love the drawing of Binky!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      The question is whether Peter/Binky will..hehe

      1. Binky Avatar

        I don’t think my cheeks are that fat, but otherwise not bad!

        1. Bearman Avatar

          You are of the square jaw variety

          1. Binky Avatar

            Definitely.

  6. Christina Avatar

    I have had to illustrate several wombats in the past. Thankfully, never their poop…

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Well then those kids nature books you are illustrating need to get more real.

  7. Colleen Avatar

    When I was in Australia I needed to draw a dead wombat for comix and my friend in Portland drew one for me then she backed her car over it so it would be dead then she tried to send it through some weird back door on the web…. anyway I’m just saying don’t try that because it totally clogged up the internetz.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Funny one of the other tidbits I didn’t include was that wombats sleep on their back with their legs in the air like they are dead.

      1. Binky Avatar

        Not all the time! If you’re referring to the picture on my site, that actually was a pet wombat.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          No it actually was one of the facts that I looked up.

          1. Binky Avatar

            And you didn’t look up your facts on my fabulous Wombat Information Center site?

          2. Bearman Avatar

            Uh…yeah but I wanted a back up

          3. Binky Avatar

            That’s heresy!

          4. Bearman Avatar

            But what does he say?

          5. Binky Avatar

            He says that next time you should get all your facts from the Wombat Information Center, as it’s the best wombat site online!

  8. jynksie Avatar
    jynksie

    Do me a ‘lil favor and promise me, should you EVER do little known facts of “Bearman”, you’ll leave out how fibrous your poo is, m-kay?!? [blinks]

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Do you want pictures of my colonoscopy?

      1. jynksie Avatar
        jynksie

        I have my own, I used them as this years christmas card! Talk about -crappy- yule log greetings! [wink]

        1. Bearman Avatar

          All I know was I was tripping on those drugs…yikes. Don’t want to go back to that.

  9. Tony McGurk Avatar

    Binky hasn’t commented yet. Maybe you’ve upset him. I didn’t know about the square poo. They would be a handy makeshift dice if you were playing Monopoly while you were lost in the bush & had no emergency dice in your ration pack.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I was thinking the same thing about the dice wondering why they don’t make those. I think they would be a hit. Get out there and start collecting shit Tony.

      Binky is never THAT quiet. He is just working on what to say.

      1. Binky Avatar

        It was new years! I had to party!
        Well, study up on orbital mechanics, actually.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          That is a party!!

          1. Binky Avatar

            Was for me!

        2. Androgoth Avatar

          I am glad you said orbital and not squardital or we might have thought it related to Bearmans mention of squared and diced poop ๐Ÿ™ I never knew about that either…

      2. Red Dwyer Avatar

        After the bottle opener thing, dice is not that far around the bend.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          It would be a good combo

  10. Ed Wombat Avatar

    I’m glad you pointed out that the rest of us Wombats are cute Mister Bearman otherwise we would have to declare a Wombat Jihad against you.

    1. Ed Wombat Avatar

      And bite your butt!!!

      1. Bearman Avatar

        Ed, cuteness in attitude goes a long way.

        1. Binky Avatar

          Human butts aren’t worth biting.

          1. Bearman Avatar

            Too high for you shorty

          2. Red Dwyer Avatar

            And not fibrous.

  11. frigginloon Avatar

    Don’t worry Binky, Bearman is just jealous of your square poo!!!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      It would be good to show off as a party trick

      1. Binky Avatar

        Remind me to never attend one of your parties.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          You are the one with the square poo

          1. Binky Avatar

            But you’re the one who wants to show it off at your party!

          2. Androgoth Avatar

            Is square dancing allowed where you live? ๐Ÿ™

          3. Bearman Avatar

            Wonder what kind of music they play at a Square Poo Dance

          4. Binky Avatar

            I don’t know, but they probably have cubist art.

  12. lisleman Avatar

    We have wombats at our local zoo. They do smell and are not cute.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I didn’t get close enough to smell them.

    2. Binky Avatar

      What?? Not cute?? I think you are very confused. Or blind.

      1. Deb Avatar
        1. Bearman Avatar

          He is a little of both.

      2. Androgoth Avatar

        At least Wombies don’t smell as bad as
        Chris’ Cologne or a Zombie’s wet fart ๐Ÿ™

        1. Bearman Avatar

          I don’t know many people who have unscented wet farts

  13. Binky Avatar

    Did you take that picture of that wombat? He looks like he was having a bad hair day. Or had mange. What kind of zoo did you visit?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      That was at the Australian Zoo…aka Steve Irwin Zoo.

      1. Binky Avatar

        Really? They used to be pampered in air-conditioned huts. That one looks a little ragged.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          They still have that. I have video of one trying to knock on the door to get back in.

          1. Binky Avatar

            The wombats in Japan do that all the time, too. They’re probably more comfortable in a dark shelter than out in their pens.

          2. Bearman Avatar

            Most definitely

  14. Sheila Deeth Avatar

    Ah, but you failed to answer the most important question: Are the wombles of Wimbledon Common related to wombats?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      What the heck is a womble?

      1. Binky Avatar

        A cheap imitation of a Wombie.
        They were popular British characters/puppets that had a TV series.

        1. Androgoth Avatar

          They used to sing like stinky and demented hobos too ๐Ÿ™

  15. duncanr Avatar

    Wombats pass Square poo? ๐Ÿ˜ฏ

    That must hurt !

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Maybe they have a square opening

      1. Binky Avatar

        Or square colon. But I’m not saying.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          Do they use square tubing for your colonoscopy?

          1. Binky Avatar

            No comment!!

  16. Deb Avatar

    Wombies and Wombats are cute. As for the poo, well….at least it’s firm.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Firm….good choice of words

      1. Androgoth Avatar

        I like firm one’s too but not in the poo line ๐Ÿ™

  17. spilledinkguy Avatar

    I was going to comment about the poor guy whose job it is to sit around counting / crunching poo data.
    Then I got to the paper part.
    ๐Ÿ™‚

    1. Bearman Avatar

      He just picks it up in one poop swoop

  18. writerdood Avatar

    My daughter wants one of these as a pet, but she can’t even pick up the dog poop. I can’t imagine what my yard would look like. Besides, we’ve got coyotes roaming the neighborhood and eating cats. I wonder what a coyote would do with a wombat? Would the wombat bite the coyote on the ass and live?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Can’t get those as a pet according to Tony.

      Don’t forget they like to dig too so you would have a crappy holey yard

      1. Binky Avatar

        Can’t export them, either. Very few are in zoos outside Australia.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          What are they endangered from?

          1. Binky Avatar

            Typical things like habitat encroachment, farming, deaths from cars, outbreaks of mange, and invasive kinds of plants that take over from the native grasses that they need to eat.

          2. Bearman Avatar

            Hate when Mange takes over me.

          3. Binky Avatar

            Oh, so that’s what that is.

  19. susi spice Avatar
    susi spice

    i love wombats they are so adorably ugly!
    i never knew their poop was square! hahha see u taught me something about my own country!

    ps i hope ur noticing my efforts on commenting ๐Ÿ˜›

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I do. I missed your comments. Now if you would just go back to blogging.

  20. Japanese Ghost Avatar

    Thanks for informing us of wombie poop. Well, at least we didn’t have to find out about Bearman poop. ๐Ÿ™‚

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Happy to share that too

      1. Red Dwyer Avatar

        Will it be a YouTube video?

        1. Bearman Avatar

          I don’t show my face…you think I am going to show my butt?

          1. Androgoth Avatar

            There is a first time for everything
            Bearman but don’t let rip beforehand
            or you will clear the whole set ๐Ÿ™

          2. Bearman Avatar

            My farts don’t smell much. My poop does though.

  21. Rent textbooks Avatar

    Thats Funny, I never would have thought they aim for the butt. what cheeky little things.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      They are indeed.

      1. Binky Avatar

        Our rear ends are armor plated. Good for crushing dingo intruders. And chocolate stealers.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          I’m not stealing chocolate from you…per the first point in the image

          1. Binky Avatar

            That’s very wise of you. But we do share when asked nicely.

          2. Bearman Avatar

            I’m just not sure what you are sharing.

          3. Androgoth Avatar

            I was wondering if Wombies play pool,
            well is it a cue that is used or a poo
            with an ‘l’ on the end? Just wondered
            because some of my Zombies are planning
            a pool party soon and we all know what
            poo in the pool does for tourists ๐Ÿ™

            Actually there is an Australian game that
            is called poo sticks, I wonder if… noooo
            let’s not even go there ๐Ÿ™ lol

          4. Bearman Avatar

            Andro…now I’m lost haha

          5. Binky Avatar

            I was talking about sharing chocolate. I have no idea what Andro was talking about!

  22. DadaHyena Avatar

    I think Bearman Cartoons has a new mascot!…well, besides that green-haired tongue dude.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      No…they sleep more than I do.

  23. Bo Lumpkim Avatar

    You forgot to mention that they are herbivorous. I learned that this week because I thought they were carrion eaters. I didn’t know about the square poop. Is that why papermills smell so bad?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Well the fibrous poop kinda gives that away.

  24. Ahmnodt Heare Avatar

    My father used to say that constipation (in humans) is caused by trying to poop squares in a round hole. Based on that logic, I guess wombats don’t get constipated.

    1. Bearman Avatar
  25. drFaust Avatar

    a friend of mine once hit a wombat in his car, they are like rocks, completely destroyed the radiator…..carry on

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Why did he have a wombat in his car? What did the wombat say to make him get hit?

      haha

  26. Miss R Avatar

    oooooh wombats AND Binky! Craving wine gums. And square poop. What a saving on paper, then you can recycle it.
    The Amazing Wombat.
    The fabulous Bearman Wombat cartoon ๐Ÿ˜‰

  27. Bearman Avatar

    Thanks Rach!

  28. planetross Avatar

    I’ve never been able to produce square poo: … my wombatting average is a solid 0.000%

    1. Bearman Avatar

      You can play dead when you sleep…that’s a start.

  29. Young American Wisdom Avatar

    I’m curious how you know these little guys have square poops. I’m concerned they may not have enough fiber in their diets. That can’t be healthy.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I’m a reader!!