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| Common Name: | Swamp Wallaby or Black Stinker | ||||||||||||||||
| Scientific Name: | Wallabia bicolor | ||||||||||||||||
| Family: | Macropodidae | ||||||||||||||||
| Colour: | The Swamp Wallaby is dark-brown to black above and light-yellow to rufous-orange below. The cheek stripes are light yellow-brown to rufous-orange in colour. Its hand and feet are dark. Its dark tail has a white tip. |
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| Form: | The Swamp Wallaby is robust and dark. Its ear shape is oval and are fairly short. Its fur is shaggy and coarse. |
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| Distribution: | It ranges from eastern Queensland through New South Wales and Victoria to south-eastern South Australia. | ||||||||||||||||
| Habitat: | The Swamp Wallaby is found in thick undergrowth in forests, woodland, heath and wet marsh spots on hillsides. | ||||||||||||||||
| Nests: | Swamp Wallabies do not use nests. They prefer dense moist thickets with thick cover in gullies. | ||||||||||||||||
| Food: | Browses on shrubs and bushes. They also eat agricultural crops and pine needle seedlings. |
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| Predators: | Unknown. | ||||||||||||||||
| Human Influence: | The Swamp Wallaby has coarse fur and a small body size, so it is unattractive to commercial shooters. | ||||||||||||||||
| Abundance: | The Swamp Wallaby is very common. | ||||||||||||||||
| Features: | The Swamp Wallaby is nocturnal, coming out at night to feed. It is usually solitary, but may form small goups when feeding. It has a small rectangular home range, often following a watercourse. It hops with its body bent over. | ||||||||||||||||
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