Parma Wallaby Fact Sheet

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Parma wallaby fact sheet.

Hybrids have been produced in captivity with macropus dorsalis and m. Our website provides access to zoo animal plant conservation and veterinary information resources. May have a postpartum estrous while carrying a pouch young 45 105 days after birth. Parma wallaby macropus parma population and conservation status threats to survival management actions these pages are part of the san diego zoo global library website.

Timing of breeding maynes 1973. Whiptail wallaby allo grooming i e. A wallaby is a marsupial or pouched animal that is a member of the kangaroo family. Common name parma wallaby maynes 2008.

Our website provides access to zoo animal plant conservation and veterinary information resources. Wallabies are smaller than kangaroos and distributed widely across australia and neighbouring islands. Wallaby from eora word wollabi used by aboriginal people in sydney region for brush tailed rock wallaby later by. Thick antarctic beech habitat favoured by parma wallabies.

Our website provides access to zoo animal plant conservation and veterinary information resources. Parma wallabies held as a breeding colony in captivity. Parma australian aboriginal word for this species. Species reported by waterhouse in 1846.

The fur is a reddish or greyish brown above greyer. The parma wallaby is the smallest member of the genus macropus at between 3 2 and 5 8 kg 7 1 and 12 8 lb less than one tenth the size of the largest surviving member the red kangaroo. It is about 0 5 m 1 6 ft in length with a sparsely furred blackish tail about the same length again. Waterfall in moist habitat favoured by parma wallabies.

Wallabies are also widespread in new zealand introduced. Similar to eastern and western grey kangaroos macropus giganteus and m. Parma wallaby macropus parma diet nutrition feeding behavior these pages are part of the san diego zoo global library website. Parma wallaby macropus parma physical measurements appearance sexual dimorphism key characteristics these pages are part of the san diego zoo global library website.

Overview of washpool national park from lookout. Our website provides access to zoo animal plant conservation and veterinary information resources. Parma wallaby macropus parma activity territorial behavior social behavior communication locomotion interspecies interactions these pages are part of the san diego zoo global library website. Geographic distribution of the parma wallaby represented by coverage of 1 250 000 map sheets of australia see www ga gov au for australian maps.

Monovular 1 egg released per cycle polyestrous more than 1 estrous cycle year. There are around 30 different species of wallaby macropod from the scientific family macropodidae macropodidae means big feet.