Parma Wallaby Fact Sheet

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Parma wallaby fact sheet.

Our website provides access to zoo animal plant conservation and veterinary information resources. Waterfall in moist habitat favoured by parma wallabies. 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. The fur is a reddish or greyish brown above greyer.

Wallabies are also widespread in new zealand introduced. Wallaby from eora word wollabi used by aboriginal people in sydney region for brush tailed rock wallaby later by. It is about 0 5 m 1 6 ft in length with a sparsely furred blackish tail about the same length again. Parma wallaby macropus parma diet nutrition feeding behavior these pages are part of the san diego zoo global library website.

Timing of breeding maynes 1973. Monovular 1 egg released per cycle polyestrous more than 1 estrous cycle year. Fuligenosis long estrous cycle about 42 days. There are around 30 different species of wallaby macropod from the scientific family macropodidae macropodidae means big feet.

Wallabies are smaller than kangaroos and distributed widely across australia and neighbouring islands. A wallaby is a marsupial or pouched animal that is a member of the kangaroo family. 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. Grooming another individual rather than self or auto grooming.

Parma wallaby macropus parma physical measurements appearance sexual dimorphism key characteristics these pages are part of the san diego zoo global library website. Similar to eastern and western grey kangaroos macropus giganteus and m. Our website provides access to zoo animal plant conservation and veterinary information resources. Whiptail wallaby allo grooming i e.

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. Eugenii close lowry 1990. 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. Hybrids have been produced in captivity with macropus dorsalis and m.

Our website provides access to zoo animal plant conservation and veterinary information resources. 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. Thick antarctic beech habitat favoured by parma wallabies.

Parma wallabies held as a breeding colony in captivity. Parma australian aboriginal word for this species.