After exiting th pouch, the offspring follows its mother for nearly another year and tends to play biting games. Young become sexually mature at 2 to 3 years of age. Behavior All wombats are diggers, as is suggested by their powerful front limbs. The animal uses the short, flattened claws of the strong front limbs to dig into a hillside or creek slope. Rocks and loose earth are pused out by the back legs.
Animals then rotate, lying on their sides to enlarge the sides and roof.
L. latifrons is a social species and often congregates in groups of 5 to 10 animals of both sexes. These wombats spend most of the day sleeping in their burrows. Feeding primarily at night, they have few natural predators. I t is likely that only a dingo could take an adult. The only other animal large enough to possibly be able to harm a small wombat would be a Wedge-tail Eagle, and these are diurnal.