tammar wallaby
dama wallaby
darma wallaby
Macropus eugenii latin

The threatened tammar wallaby used to be found here, but has not been observed in the area lately.

As with most macropods, the tammar wallaby moves around by hopping.

Mostly nocturnal, tammar wallabies spend much of their time foraging.

Tammar wallabies became extinct on mainland South Australia in the 1930's.

Garden Island is home to a Tammar Wallaby population.

The tammar wallaby has a promiscuous mating system.

The Tammar Wallaby is the marsupial chosen for the genome sequencing project.

This subspecies eats geckos, house mice, birds, and marsupials, including the Tammar wallaby.

One of the smallest wallaby species, the tammar wallaby features a small head and large ears with a long tail, thick at the base.

There are three sub-species of Tammar Wallaby:

Since European occupation, tammar wallaby populations on both mainland Australia and some of the islands have been greatly reduced or even eradicated.

Captive populations of tammar wallabies in New South Wales have subsequently suffered infections in summer months.

The tammar wallaby is a model organism for studying marsupial biology, as well as mammal biology in general.

Furthermore, West and East Wallabi Island are the only islands in the group upon which the Tammar Wallaby lives.

Fossil evidence of the tammar wallaby exists from the late Pleistocene era-remains were found in the Naracoorte Caves.

The Tammar Wallaby (Macropus eugenii) are a small species of wallaby from Australia.

Native Australian wildlife, including koalas, tammar wallabies, rare Australian sea lions, and sand goannas, thrives there.

These include the Woylie, Quenda, Black-flanked Rock-wallaby and the Tammar Wallaby.

The tammar wallaby is listed as of Least Concern by the IUCN, due to its abundance and presumably stable population.

Animals either recorded, or expected to be present, include Black-gloved Wallaby, Tammar Wallaby and Red-tailed Phascogale.

There are remnant populations of some marsupials on offshore islands including the Tammar wallaby and the Quokka, the latter particularly on Rottnest Island.

Methagenomic analysis revealed that the foregut of tammar wallabies mainly contains bacteria belonging to the phyla Firmicutes, Bacteroides and Proteobacteria.

The Tammar Wallaby and Woylie, both of which are threatened species, are known to inhabit the mallee and heath areas of the park.

Ontogeny of the projection tracts and commissural fibres in the forebrain of the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii): timing in comparison with other mammals.

AGG01 is the tentative name of a new peptide antibiotic discovered in the breast milk of the Tammar wallaby, reportedly one hundred times more powerful than penicillin.

Dama Wallaby (Macropus eugenii)