wallaby

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On one Australian island, the light was so disruptive that wallabies, whose gestation is normally triggered by the summer solstice, ended up giving birth so much later in the season that food had run out.

From New York Times

The wallaby, which has been named Choppy, was transported to the zoo where medics say he will have a "forever home" and integrated with two resident female wallabies already on site.

From BBC

Among the animals identified for protection are a bird known as the King Island scrubtit, the brush-tailed rock wallaby and the growling grass frog.

From New York Times

She is now back in her Glenpark Estate enclosure - complete with a newly raised fence - and has been reunited with Jeffrey, the other wallaby who lives there.

From BBC

In theory, reintroducing proxy thylacines could help restore balance to Tasmania’s remaining forests by picking off sick or weak animals and controlling overabundant herbivores such as wallabies and kangaroos, some researchers say.

From Scientific American