A kangaroo, a possum and a bushrat walk into a burrow: research finds wombat homes are the supermarkets of the forest

Just dropping by: clockwise from top left, a swamp wallaby, a common wombat, a grey shrikethrush, a wombat and a common brushtail possum, a short-beaked echidna and a lace monitor. Composite: Supplied by Grant Linley

First came a picture of an inquisitive red-necked wallaby, then an image of a bare-nosed wombat, followed by a couple of shots of the wombat’s burrow with nothing else in the frame.

By the time research scientist Grant Linley had looked through a further 746,670 images, he had seen 48 different species visiting the 28 wombat burrows that he had trained his cameras on.