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They really are tough. They have cartilage that protects their back from predators. One of their main tactics for dealing with dogs and dingos is to duck down a nearby burrow. When the dog sticks its head in the burrow after it, the wombat uses the cartilage on its back and its powerful legs and crushes the dog's head between it's back and the roof of the tunnel.

They have also been known to survive being hit by Mack trucks, which is what Americans call sixteen wheelers, I believe. They can also run up to 40km/h and maintain that speed for 90 seconds (that's 25mph), and their teeth are very large as well.

Here, let me grab a thing from wikipedia...

"Attacks on humans

Humans can receive puncture wounds from wombat claws, as well as bites. Startled wombats can also charge humans and bowl them over, with the attendant risks of broken bones from the fall. One naturalist, Harry Frauca, once received a bite 2 cm (0.8 in) deep into the flesh of his leg—through a rubber boot, trousers and thick woolen socks. A UK newspaper, The Independent, reported that on 6 April 2010, a 59-year-old man from rural Victoria state was mauled by a wombat (thought to have been angered by mange), causing a number of cuts and bite marks requiring hospital treatment. He resorted to killing it with an axe."

So yes. They are about as tanky as you can get in nature outside having an actual shell. But they're really cute. =3