Wombat Habitat - Satsukiyama Zoo, Osaka, Japan

Four cameras cover the wombat house at Satsukiyama Zoo in Ikeda, Osaka, one for each of the resident wombats, running continuously through day and night. The zoo, known in Japanese as 五月山動物園 and recently renamed Satsukiyama DAYZOO, is the second smallest member zoo in Japan and has kept wombats since 1990, when three arrived as a gift from Ikeda's sister city of Launceston in Tasmania.

Wombats are nocturnal and spend much of the daytime asleep in their burrows, so quiet stretches are normal and expected. Activity tends to pick up around feeding and in the cooler hours, when the wombats emerge to walk, dig, graze on grass, and shuffle between the indoor dens and the outdoor grass yard. Japan runs nine hours ahead of UTC, which is worth checking against your own clock before tuning in.

The zoo currently keeps five wombats, the best known being Wain, rescued from his mother's pouch after a road accident in Tasmania in 1989 and recognised by Guinness World Records as the oldest wombat in captivity ever recorded. The zoo also produced the first successful wombat breeding outside Australia in 1992. According to the zoo, this is the only live wombat camera in the world.

Did You Know? Wombats produce cube shaped droppings, the only animal known to do so. Researchers found the shape is formed by uneven stiffness in the last section of the intestine, and the flat sides stop the pellets rolling away when wombats stack them on rocks and logs to mark territory.

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