Wallaby
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WALLABY, a native name, used in literature for any member of a section of the zoological genus Macropus, with naked muffle, frequenting forests and dense scrubs.
Wallaby Facts
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Wallaby
Mammal. The rock wallaby is a small kangaroo. There are 15 species of rock wallaby. They live exclusively on rocky terrain and can leap up to 4 meters (13 feet) but cannot climb trees.
Wallaby
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see kangaroo.
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Kangaroo - name for a variety of hopping marsupials, or pouched mammals, of the family Macropodidae, found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea.
A baby wallaby is called a joey.
What is a wallaby?
Wallabies are part of a group called 'macropods', which means 'great-footed animals'. Kangaroos are the largest members of this group. There are many different kinds of wallaby.
Rock Wallaby
These unique and beautiful 'acrobats of the marsupial world' leap and bound their way around rocky outcrops and cliff ledges in rugged and steep areas throughout Australia.
Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus) ...
Swamp Wallaby Wallabia bicolor
The Swamp Wallaby is distributed in eastern and south-eastern Australia on the coastal side of the Great Dividing Range. Despite its name it is not confined to swamps but is also found in forest, woodland and scrub.
Parma Wallaby - profile
Scientific name: Macropus parma
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
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Wallaby Range
Fast Facts
Type: Mammal Diet: Herbivore Average life span in the wild: 9 years Size: 12 to 41 in (30 to 104 cm); tail, ...
The wallaby is able to survive in its dry habitat by drinking sea water when fresh water is not available.
Here at the Zoo
The Antelope Yards are home to our Tammar wallabies.
Tammar Wallaby
Macropus eugenii
Like most marsupials, tammar wallabies give birth to very small young that crawl into the pouch to continue developing over several months.
*** This wallaby has a horny pointed 'nail' on the tip of its tail, giving it the name 'nail-tailed'.
*** The bridled nail-tailed wallaby hops with a fast, smooth movement (hence its nickname 'Flash Jack').
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Rufous hare wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus)
Spectacled hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes conspicillatus)
Golden-mantled tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus pulcherrimus)
Black tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus ursinus)
Red kangaroo (Macropus rufus) ...
Proserpine Rock-Wallaby, Petrogale persephone (Maynes, 1982)
Researcher: Paula Winkel
What is the Proserpine rock-wallaby?
Small-eared rock wallaby
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Agile Wallabys are at home and protected in this park. Notice the white strip along the cheek.
Wallaby
Wallabies are small to medium-sized kangaroos.
Wombat
The wombat is a rare, burrowing marsupial from mainland Australia and Tasmania.
Rock Wallaby (Yellow-footed)
Rufous Hare Wallaby
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Red-necked Wallaby Macropus rufogriseus - Introduced
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Bennett's wallaby
Class: Mammalia
Status: IUCN: Least Concern; CITES: Not Listed.
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Miniature Wallaby Discovered
Researchers working in Indonesian New Guinea announced recently that they had discovered a miniature wallaby (above) that was by far the smallest member of the the kangaroo family.
Sharman's rock-wallaby Petrogale sharmani
Sharpnose Sevengill Shark trawled during the NORFANZ expedition
Sharpnose Sevengill Shark, Heptranchias perlo (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Sharptail Sunfish, Masturus lanceolatus (Lienard, 1840)
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Tasmanian Devils can take prey up to the size of a small wallaby, but in practice they are opportunistic and eat carrion more often than they hunt live prey.
In total there are 55 species of kangaroo, wallaby & wallaroo belonging to the family Macropodidae (from a Greek word meaning 'big feet').
wallaby? large agamid lizard?) scrambling through the bushes near our feet. I looked in the direction the sound was going and spotted this Perentie eyeing us cautiously from its semi-concealed perch in a pile of jumbled boulders.
Marsupials are the group of mammals commonly thought of as pouched mammals (like the wallaby and kangaroo at left). They give live birth, but they do not have long gestation times like placental mammals.
Species Onychogalea lunata (crescent nail-tailed wallaby)
Species Onychogalea unguifera (northern nail-tailed wallaby)
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Like the Tasmanian wolf , which has been exterminated all believed to be, because of its inroads on the domestic poultry and livestock, the Tasmanian devil also preys on the Wallaby , lizards, rodents, and other small animals.
Some ferret owners feed a meat-based diet consisting of whole prey like mice and rabbits along with raw meat like chicken, beef, veal, kangaroo and wallaby.
 See also: Kangaroo, Marsupial, Manatee, Rabbit, Shark
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