Yes, anything’s cute when it’s a baby and its feet have somehow been scrunched up altogether …

How is this even possible? (Mark Nolan/Getty Images)

But here’s what else I like about the wombat: Even though it’s, like, 30 to 80 pounds full-grown, it loooves to dig burrows, as if it’s a chipmunk (or an ant). That’s why it lives in open grassy areas in Australia, where the soil is loose.

Its burrows, called “warrens,” are ENORMOUS — they can be as many as 650 feet long, with tunnels and chambers and back doors and several plush bedrooms, according to Discovery. It also digs additional vacation burrows nearby that it can escape to if an angry farmer (or other predator) emerges. (Farmers don’t appreciate the wombats’ extensive burrow systems.)

Many wombats lead solitary lives, but some of them connect their burrow systems with other wombats’ systems, in which case they’re called a “mob,” according to NG. Not an angry mob, though. Wombats eat grass and bark, and the females carry their young around in pouches for five months. Not to mention the fact that their poop is shaped like cubes.

The question is: Can you snuggle a wombat? Yes, I understand you can hold a wombat in your lap (like this girl) at Caversham Wildlife Park in Western Australia.

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