Moses....

Well, Moses has done well so far. He has and is challenging our resident male. Phil watched 2 nights ago the goings on between the two. It was very even in terms of the pushing and shoving. The odd bite but both parties are fine. Interestingly both have head marks from fighting which means neither one is backing down. There was a larger third wombat in the equation who kept going, then coming back and almost antagonizing Boney Bum. Eventually Boney Bum chased him off. Then he collapsed as this type of behaviour takes an incredible amount of energy out of wombats.

It is why if a wombat is not strong enough physically to cope, it will be killed as if they are doing to challenge a territory, it is not only strength but stamina that allows them to survive. If it gets horrific, we step in. If its evenly matched and 'males being males' then we let them sort themselves out in terms of hierarchy. The sooner they sort it out the better of course.

Daphne is still around but keeping a low profile I would say with the latest activity going on. Wise lady:). We received a new recruit yesterday. A young male who although is quite imprinted (ie tame) he will do well. He was raised by a new carer who has given him a little bit too much love but they have done a great job in that he is healthy and certainly has the tendencies which he now has to develop. So all good.  It will be a harder adjustment for him initially as his 'comforts' will most certainly be removed but after what we have seen in the bush over the last 48 hours, it only confirms you have to send the strongest and fittest back into the bush to survive.

In keeping with the theme of a 'crap week' last week we lost the little guy who had come in. We couldn't have saved him as he had a huge amount of bruising and blood which started to show so he had obviously taken the impact of his mother being hit. Very sad but that is just the way it goes. At least he wasn't eaten alive by bull ants. Back to it. Travel safe and have a great weekend.