Australia's Baros Wombat Sanctuary was looted in a 2020 forest fire, and few animals escaped the disaster. But Ms. You Landa, the head of an animal rescue organization, took a surprising video in the forest ruins.
At that time, in order to confirm whether there were surviving wombats, Ms. You Landa personally climbed to the wombat cave to search.
In the cave she did find a wombat, which walked slowly to the other side, unscathed.
But the scene that appears in the next shot stunned her! Only to see that a small koala actually crawled out of one of the openings of the cave, and it looked east and west, which seemed to be very leisurely.
Who knows, after the little koala, a rabbit sprang out of the cave, and it sniffed back and forth in the open space in the cave, as if it was looking for food.
When You Lanta saw all this, she excitedly climbed out of the cave and then gave the strange video to the other staff to watch one by one.
The staff felt very strange, so they went into the cave again to check, unexpectedly, found small lizards, water dragons and other small animals.
It's amazing! The wombat's cave turned out to be a shelter for small animals. It's like a fairy tale, the ground is full of fire, but the ground is happy.
For this strange phenomenon, You Landa asked the animal experts, and learned that the wombat was originally a rescue hero in the Australian wildfire.
Experts say that if you see an animal unscathed behind a wildfire, it must have crawled out of a wombat hole.
Because the wombat's cave system is very complex and large, a single tunnel can reach 20 meters to 30 meters long, has multiple entrances, and each tunnel is connected to other tunnels, crisscrossing, and the entire cave route sometimes adds up to more than 200 meters long. Therefore, once a wildfire comes, almost no wombat will be burned. Of course, small animals that are lucky enough to enter the wombat cave to avoid fire will not be harmed.
The most amazing thing is that the seemingly stupid wombats will drive small animals into their burrows quickly in times of danger, just like sheepdogs herding sheep.
Rather than, as some dissenters argue, wombats have a strong sense of territory and will not let other animals into their burrows.
It is true that wombats have a strong sense of territory in normal times, but their sense of territory is clearly distinguished when dealing with different animals.
They will pull a square stick at the mouth of the cave to mark their territory. After research, this unique square cane in the world is designed to prevent it from being pushed away by.
But this territorial division can only prevent some of its kind from encroaching, and for predators, the smell of cannabis is not a threat.
Once predators arrive, wombats will certainly not allow them to enter the cave, even if a fire breaks out.
First of all, wombats will build the opening of the cave a little smaller, and if the dingo-sized animal is to be hard, they will block the hole with thick skin, almost no tail, and cartilaginous iron buttocks, so that the wild dog's bite can not find the focus.
If a small predator such as a tiger ferret or tasman devil wants to break into the wombat's cave, the wombat will deliberately shrink its hips, leave a slit, and when the predator drills in, it will then suffocate the iron buttocks upwards, suffocating the intruder on the cave wall, to a "wombat's buttocks to die; ghosts are also merry.".
Of course, these tactics are used to try to hunt the cave wombats or their own predators.
When dealing with small animals that are also herbivores, it is different. When the enemy comes, there are shotguns; when friends come, there is good wine.
For these small animals, wombats will behave like big brothers when the forest fire is lit, not only allowing the small animals to enter their caves for refuge; they will also take the initiative to rush. This behavior may seem inconceivable.
In fact, the main reason for this is that herbivorous small animals will not do any harm to wombats, plus the wombats' caves are so big, it is convenient to do nothing.
But it is also not possible to completely deny the spirituality of mutual help between animals, after all, there are some things that science cannot fully explain.
In any case, wombats did save a lot of small animals from the Australian forest fires. Some people have even seen the wallabies rescued, whether it is that the wallabies have once taken refuge in the cave, so put the wallabies that can climb in at the mouth of the wombat cave. In addition to the wallabies, there were also people in the wombat cave close to the coast, surprised to find two small blue penguins after the fire for the rest of their lives.
The most peculiar thing is that once people in the entrance of the wombat cave after the mountain fire, saw many butterflies flying out, even the butterflies know that the wombat cave is a place to escape, it seems that the title of wombat is worthy of the name of the animal hero.
But it is not easy for wombats to dig out this cave that can accommodate sentient beings. They spend most of their day plowing the soil, and in order not to give birth to a child's face, their nursery bags have evolved to open in the direction of their butts. The wombat can see the back of his mother's buttocks when he sticks his head out of the bag, and since he was a child, he has felt that "facing the sea, spring is warm and blossoming", but he does not know how hard his mother is in front.
But the hard work will eventually come to fruition, and the tunnel formed by bits and pieces may one day become the perfect shelter to save animals from the sea of fire.
