Orphan baby Wombat Rescued After 10 Months Struggle to Survive On It's Own

[TootsieFootsie]

Beautiful photograph taken after 'battle-scarred' baby wombat's life-changing moment

Covered in 'battle scars' and desperately thin, it's unclear how the orphaned baby survived. Read about her ordeal and how she was rescued.

au.news.yahoo.com

One of the most beautiful photographs you’ll see this year shows a baby wombat surprised to be inside a car and staring out the window at the highway. Before she was rescued this week, frightened young Gracie had been sheltering in a damp underpass on one of Tasmania’s most notorious roadkill corridors.

Ten months before little Gracie was rescued this week, she was orphaned after a vehicle strike. Trying to survive on her own, she was becoming desperately thin, but rescuers who searched every day had been unable to catch her.

"We were so excited when we caught her because of the amount of times we'd been searching for this little one," Joy from Wombat Rescue Tasmania told Yahoo News.

 

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Beautiful photograph taken after 'battle-scarred' baby wombat's life-changing moment

Covered in 'battle scars' and desperately thin, it's unclear how the orphaned baby survived. Read about her ordeal and how she was rescued.

au.news.yahoo.com

One of the most beautiful photographs you’ll see this year shows a baby wombat surprised to be inside a car and staring out the window at the highway. Before she was rescued this week, frightened young Gracie had been sheltering in a damp underpass on one of Tasmania’s most notorious roadkill corridors.

Ten months before little Gracie was rescued this week, she was orphaned after a vehicle strike. Trying to survive on her own, she was becoming desperately thin, but rescuers who searched every day had been unable to catch her.

"We were so excited when we caught her because of the amount of times we'd been searching for this little one," Joy from Wombat Rescue Tasmania told Yahoo News.

@TootsieFootsie , you always find the sweetest stories that really do make me smile!

Here’s the little wombat, looking out the car window, from your link.

 

[Richard]

Wombats are marsupials, like many other Australian native animals. Often, a mother is killed by a vehicle and her young remain alive inside her pouch.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

It's drummed into Australians to always stop and check marsupials pouches for babies if they've been hit by a car.
If you see a recently deceased marsupial, kangaroos, wombats, etc.

If the animal has obviously started decomposing, the baby would have already died.

Move the deceased animal away from the road, check if they're male or female.
Reach right down into the pouch. Babies can be as small as a jellybean.

Use a marker on the male animals and on the females, after you've checked the pouches to show others that the animals have been checked,

If you find a baby ring Wires, wildlife rescue or take to a vet who will usually know someone in the area experienced with marsupials.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Wombats are marsupials, like many other Australian native animals. Often, a mother is killed by a vehicle and her young remain alive inside her pouch.

And sometimes they are rescued and looked after until they're old enough to survive on their own.