[Answer] What type of mammal is a wombat?

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...What's sweeter than a cute and cuddly wombat? Another one of the furry animals - buried into its mother's pouch. That's right, just like a kangaroo, the wombat is a marsupial. After giving birth to its small, undeveloped joey, the mother holds its young in its pouch for about five months. Up until the joey reaches seven months, it continues to crawl back into the pouch to nurse and seek safety. Source: National Geographic

[Ans] What type of mammal is a wombat?

Step 1 : Introduction to the question "What type of mammal is a wombat?"

There are three extant species and they are all members of the family Vombatidae. They are adaptable and habitat tolerant, and are found in forested, mountainous, and heathland areas of south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania, as well as an isolated patch of about 300 ha (740 acres) in Epping Forest National Park in central Queensland.