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Meet the Ancestors ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14040349

TD

well...someone had to post it i suppose.

Why did I think a wombat was some sort of bird?

TCP

i assume it's because you are an American...you poor soul.

when their babies their kinda cute

While on your home turf, YOU'RE some sort of bird. Strange, isn't it?

TCP

I thought Sheila had a good comeback.

TCP, when you come to Australia you should be careful and avoid standing under our Gum trees because we have "Drop Bears". They belong to the Koala family but they're infinitely more dangerous. (they don't have wings)

OMG!
I've become a someone!
Bless you Sheila!
TD

I think so too - every time she uses it.



I'll consider myself warned, thanks.

TCP

hmm..seems you are not alone Tim, is this something you are taught in school?

"If you thought wombats had wings and slept upside down in caves...."

http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Native-A ... aronga-Zoo

Receipe of the day: Wombat Surprise

Ingredients:

1 medium-sized Wombat (25-30lbs)
4 onions
8 medium potatoes
8 carrots
15 celery stalks
1 medium head of cabbage
1 tbs salt
1 tsp black pepper
1 candle

Fill a very large soup kettle 3/4 full of water, place on stove. Heat water to approx 95 degrees Fahrenheit. Turn off heat. Place wombat in water. Let steep for five minutes. Remove wombat and set aside.

Cut onions, potatoes, carrots, into one-inch squares, place in water. Cut celery into 2 inch lengths, and cabbage into eighths. Place in water. Add salt and pepper. Bring kettle to boil. Let boil for 15 mins or until all vegetables are tender.

Strain out vegetables and place in large salad bowl.
Let cool.

When vegetables are no longer steaming, place candle in middle of vegetables and light it.

Place bowl in front of wombat and yell, "Surprise!"

Be careful not to cook your wombat for too long or the surprise will be ruined.

If it is I must have slept through it.

TCP

Tsk tsk...kids who slept through school

Ah, Wombat Stew. The great favourite of every Aussie kid.

Centigrade not fahrenheit.

Wombat as a bird, that`s funny.



The giant Cassowary bird, lives in Australia - it`s the most dangerous bird in the world.



The wombat ancestor, it looks like a rhino! I`m going to be more polite to Wombat now.

I notice the furry critter is not biting.....and bite they can. They can be very aggressive and do significant damage with their teeth and claws. They can run fast (for a while anyway) and a medium wombat would be about 50lbs, they are not small cuddly creatures unless young.
Renne, please read the article before you go into posting overload, that IS a rhino, do you think cameras were around contemporary with the ancestor?? Crikey, we'll all be rooooned I reckon.

Calling all Wombats!
Anyone seen the 'Crittur'? we need to know whether its a family likeness!
Strewth! How do we go about arranging a wombat hunt ?
What sort of bait is best? I'm told we need copious amounts of strong cheese and icecold tinnies!

Can our local correspondents please advise!

TD

Don't need to hunt them Tommy (wouldn't know how anyway - best is probably to wait till morning or dusk when they come out to graze - easily bagged).

Opportunistic supply available from road kill - especially around dusk on a country road - poor little buggers are dolefully slow crossing the road.

No...the point is NOT to cook him...just a nice warm body heat bath.

hmm....interesting to note that TD and the words "road-kill" still keep cropping up in the same sentence after all these years..was there something in the rumour after all?

Read the post properly, they don't appear in the same sentence !
After all these years I never thought I'd see the day that the mighty Sheila would be reduced to quoting Ol' Jakey for a cheap laugh
Despite what you said at the time I always thought that you had a sneaky regard for his intellectual contribution!

I'm told there's much great protein to be had on the roadside but its not really my thing, though I'm sure that it probably appeals to some of you country folk.

I'm delighted that the words 'Sheila' and 'Credulous', 'Gullible' or even 'Misleading' are not seen in public in the same sentence or even adjoining ones.

TD

it was just a bit of humour TD....and i've got nothing against cooking a bit of recent road-kill as long as it's not too flat.

and yes, i got on fine with Jake in the early days...until he started to ramble.

Does it even need to be recent? Just another way of hanging meat, really, if you think about it, as long as it's not too flattened out, like you say. Though in the UK we have a very weird law about it, so that if you run over, say, a pheasant, you're not supposed to pick it up and take it away, which is technically regarded as poaching, but if you're in the car following you can stop and pick it up. They breed so many pheasants in the woods near me that hitting the odd one is an occupational hazard, but I never take them home, though I know people who do.

It's always a bit upsetting, though, when they run out in front of the car. Once, in Australia (up country Victoria, near Bendigo), we ran over six rabbits in the course of a forty minute car journey. They all got despatched properly afterwards but it was just unavoidable really; there were thousands and thousands of them running all over the road. We used to go shooting most evenings and eat whatever we shot, but to be honest, there was little sport in it, as the landscape was so teeming with rabbits, if you just pointed in their general direction you'd invariably hit one.

I wouldn't eat a wombat, though, however large and fearsome they may grow to; not having seen that lovely little creature that lovuian posted a picture of further up the thread. Very cute and cuddly.