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

But here’s what else I like about the wombat: Even though it’s, like, 30 to 80 pounds, 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. 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.)

What? You don’t think this little guy is cute?

It’s called an echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus). Here’s why it’s adorable: Female echidnas lay eggs — like chickens. As you know, most mammals don’t lay eggs, save the platypus. After she lays the egg, she sticks it in her pouch (cause, like a kangaroo, she has one of those).