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Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby
Petrogale penicillata
-33.621, 151.304
Field Notes
Description:
also known as the small-eared rock-wallaby. This beautifully marked medium-sized wallaby is distinguished by its long, dark tail ending in a brush of coarse hair, a white to buff cheek-stripe and a black dorsal stripe along the head. The upper body is brown, tending to rufous on the rump and grey on the shoulders. The chest and belly are paler and the feet and paws are black. Males are larger than females and may weigh up to 11 kg.
Notes:
Wallaby doe and joey, at Pittwater (Kurangai NP, near Sydney).Once the most abundant wallaby throughout Australia, but in decline except in New South Wales.
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