Armed with a makeshift pole and a spray can filled with medication, conservationist Melina Budden quietly tails Hope, a mange-infected wombat, through the Australian bush. Mange is a skin disease ...

This is the amusing moment a wombat satisfyingly scratched its back ... Wombats can experience itching due to a skin condition called mange, caused by mites burrowing under their skin.

Conservationists are seeing a significant number of wombats affected by the deadly skin disease known as sarcoptic mange. The ...