One animal whose sex life has come in for close scrutiny is the wombat.
Wombat was founded on the idea that cybersecurity training is best done by engaging users with games.
The platform will allow Wombat to quickly deploy new games to meet new security issues, says Sadeh.
She plans to use the common wombat as a surrogate mother, to avoid stressing the northern wombat.
Sadeh says that Wombat will offer the platform to its other clients as well once the company has finished the project.
Britney: I think they realized working here was a big fat wombat.
Horsup works in northern hairy nosed wombat conservation, which at the time involved holding a piece of wombat excrement between his index finger and thumb.
BBC: Protecting a wombat species that is as fast as Usain Bolt
But ultimately, she would like to avoid the awkward process of collecting egg cells from the northern wombat, and clone the animal instead.
The Northern hairy nosed wombat is the largest of all the three species, weighing up to 40kg and measuring about 1m long (the females are slightly heavier than the males).
BBC: Protecting a wombat species that is as fast as Usain Bolt
In the case of the northern wombat, the nucleus could be taken from an easily accessible skin cell, and the egg could be provided by a common wombat.
Now Wombat will be developing about a dozen such games, at least initially, for the US Airforce to teach players about different areas of cybersecurity under a new micro-games platform.
Monique Paris of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, has been working with the common wombat, trying to understand its reproductive cycles as a prelude to tackling the rarer northern hairy-nosed variety, of which only 100 or so survive.
The average person will ignore or forget content from emails with security warnings or company lectures when it comes time to actually apply that knowledge, says Norman Sadeh, co-founder of Wombat and a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
Volunteer caretakers, who need to be familiar with living in the bush, managing a remote reserve and knowing what to do if there is an emergency, are required to live in the park for about a month at a time, reporting on bush fires and recording data taken from cameras at the wombat watering stations.
BBC: Protecting a wombat species that is as fast as Usain Bolt
The mountains shimmer blue when the sun hits the eucalyptus vapors from the trees, at night, the dense star patterns of the Southern Hemisphere sky also shimmer in the clearest skies, and crossing the path to your cottage at night, you may well encounter a wombat, wallaby or kangaroo the 4000 acres are filled with them.
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There are two other species of wombat, the common (or bare-nosed) wombat, which is not endangered and is found on the southeastern coast of Australia (in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania) and the southern hairy nosed wombat, which is endangered and is found in arid, sandy pockets in the southern part of Australia (in South Australia and Western Australia).
BBC: Protecting a wombat species that is as fast as Usain Bolt
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