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Black Swamp Wallaby
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Fascinating to see this Wallaby at Lake Wendouree gardens in Ballarat.
It was pulling up the reeds chewing of the tough ends and sucking in the good bits.
While all this was going on, the locals, and dogs and kids and prams were walking along on the track just opposite the water's edge.
How it travelled there through the surrounding mainstream suburbia is but another question.
I went out for a sunrise at the lighthouse on the island, but the sunrise was a bust. Fortunately, I came across these guys and had a proper wildlife lens with me! Always be prepared to adapt when you don't get the conditions you hope for, right?
A wild swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor) with joey in the early morning on Griffiths Island near the town of Port Fairy, Australia. Young are carried in the pouch for 8 to 9 months. Swamp wallabies, marsupials often confused with kangaroos, are found from the northernmost areas of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, down the entire east coast and around to southwestern Victoria.
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Black Swamp Wallaby
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This one was so intent of getting its mid-morning snack, that it just continued with its feast.
Black Swamp Wallaby
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Unphased by my presence, the charming little Wallaby finished its early morning drink and moved into the scrub. Instantly disappearing once it was in the tree line.
Black Swamp Wallaby
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She has been carrying and tending this one over winter, and now it's time to leave home. But she is still happy to tend it.
No doubt that will change soon as she has several suitors waiting in the wings.
29 augustus 2025
The name "swamp wallaby" seems to be linked to the fact that this species sometimes lives in swampy areas. But in fact, the swamp wallaby apparently owes its name to its characteristic "swampy body odor." In Queensland, Australia, the species is therefore also called "stinker."
Having a strange smell can actually be quite beneficial for animals! Unlike other kangaroos, this species of kangaroo was never eaten. Aboriginal people dislike the smell, and swamp wallabies apparently taste a bit strange.
29 augustus 2025
The name "swamp wallaby" seems to be linked to the fact that this species sometimes lives in swampy areas. But in fact, the swamp wallaby apparently owes its name to its characteristic "swampy body odor." In Queensland, Australia, the species is therefore also called "stinker."
Having a strange smell can actually be quite beneficial for animals! Unlike other kangaroos, this species of kangaroo was never eaten. Aboriginal people dislike the smell, and swamp wallabies apparently taste a bit strange.
We are very luck to live in a major city with a large population of around. The come down from a fairly large near by bush reserve. I wonder if their population is sustainable as the reserve is surrounded by roads or housing estates on all sides.
The northern or sandy nail-tail wallaby (Onychogalea unguifera) is a species of macropod found across northern Australia on arid and sparsely wooded plains. The largest species of the genus Onychogalea, it is a solitary and nocturnal herbivorous browser that selects its food from a wide variety of grasses and succulent plant material. Distinguished by a slender and long-limbed form that resembles the typical and well known kangaroos, although their standing height is shorter, around half of one metre, and their weight is less than nine kilograms. As with some medium to large kangaroo species, such as Osphranter rufus, they have an unusual pentapedal motion at slow speeds by stiffening the tail for a fifth limb. When fleeing a disturbance, they hop rapidly with the tail curled back and repeatedly utter the sound "wuluhwuluh". Their exceptionally long tail has a broad fingernail-like protuberance beneath a dark crest of hair at its end, a peculiarity of the genus that is much broader than the other species. The name unguifera, meaning claw, is a reference to this extraordinary attribute, the purpose of which is unknown.
A Wallaby is a marsupial similar to a Kangaroo. This one has a Joey (Baby) in her pouch. Photo taken on Magnetic Island, North-East Queensland,
Wallaby in Blue Mountains Australia.
A wallaby is a small- or mid-sized macropod found in Australia and New Guinea. They belong to the same taxonomic family as kangaroos and sometimes the same genus, but kangaroos are specifically categorised into the six largest species of the family. The term wallaby is an informal designation generally used for any macropod that is smaller than a kangaroo or wallaroo that has not been designated otherwise.[1]
There are 11 species of brush wallabies (g. Macropus, s.g. Protemnodon). Their head and body length is 45 to 105 cm and the tail is 33 to 75 cm long. The six named species of rock-wallabies (g. Petrogale) live among rocks, usually near water; two species are endangered. The two species of hare-wallabies (g. Lagorchestes) are small animals that have the movements and some of the habits of hares. Often called "pademelons", the three species of scrub wallabies (g. Thylogale) of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and Tasmania are small and stocky, with short hind limbs and pointed noses. They are hunted for meat and fur. A similar species is the short-tailed scrub wallaby, or quokka (Setonix brachyurus); this species is now restricted to two offshore islands of Western Australia. The three named species of forest wallabies (g. Dorcopsulus) are native to the island of New Guinea. The dwarf wallaby is the smallest member of the genus and the smallest known member of the kangaroo family. Its length is about 46 cm from nose to tail, and it weighs about 1.6 kg.
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