[Human-wombat relations: It’s complicated]

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The wombat’s relationship with people goes back millennia. For example, researchers found wombat remains in a Tasmanian cave used by humans 20,000 to 15,000 years ago. Wombats were good eats, Stannard says — “little casseroles on legs.” (Stannard hasn’t had a taste, but the journals of George Augustus Robinson, a Briton and liaison to Indigenous populations in the 1800s, report that wombat rump made a yummy stew with onions and potatoes.)Sexdolls deutschlandColonists and early visitors to Australia appreciated wombats at first, along with other iconic species such as the platypus. “They were one of the most popular Australian animals,” says Carver, an ecologist who began studying the creatures while at the University of Tasmania in Hobart.But that fascination soured when wombats, prolific diggers, got caught up in the general rage against pesky, non-native rabbits.Echte Sexpuppen Rabbits were introduced for hunting in 1859 and spread like, well, rabbits, excavating warrens and causing extensive ecological damage across most of the continent. Wombat burrowing is good for the soil because it turns over nutrients. But beleaguered farmers, worried about their crops, fences and dams, didn’t always make the distinction between burrowing wombats and burrowing rabbits. By the mid-1900s, officials in the state of Victoria were offering a bounty of one dollar per wombat head.Some people still kill wombats to protect their buildings or crops, but this typically requires a license, and conservationists have found ways to protect infrastructure. If wombats dig under fencing, farmers can add wombat-sized gates. Made of wire mesh and swinging like doggy doors, they’re weighted to allow wombats to push through but to block undesirable critters, such as wallabies that eat grass meant for sheep.Luxus Sexpuppen Other one-way gates can be draped across entries to burrows in places where the wombats are not wanted so that any of the animals inside can escape but not get back in, Old says.Digging into wombat scienceBare-nosed wombats now inhabit a crescent-shaped swath of southeastern Australia, plus Tasmania and Flinders Island, which lies between Tasmania and the mainland.Neu Sexpuppen While their subterranean habitats make them difficult to count, Carver and others estimate there are more than 1.3 million of them around. Using genetic markers, Carver has found that the mainland, Tasmania and Flinders Island populations are genetically distinct.Even with new efforts to protect them, their populations still face many dangers.Bestseller Sexpuppen They frequently end up as roadkill. Climate change may force the cool-weather-loving critters to higher elevations. And colonists, presumably, introduced the mite Sarcoptes scabiei to the landscape. The mite causes annoying scabies in people and similar symptoms in other mammals, but a debilitating “crusted mange” in wombats, records of which go back a century.