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Let me preface my comment by saying that I have been providing Faith M. Walker with access to semitame and hand-raised southern hairy-nosed wombats for her studies. You didn’t mention that Faith’s work has an application in studying the effects of habitat fragmentation, which is a major cause of the species’ decline. On a more personal note, the animal Faith is holding in the picture (above) is Wanda, a hand-raised orphan who dug her way out of our enclosure last October and has not been seen since.