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Wallaby footprints

Photo by lori.tas
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Field Notes

Description:

We have two species of wallaby that live near our house. The Bennet's wallaby and the tasmanian pademelon (the littlest wallaby species). I can't tell which species these belong to, so I'll just leave them listed as "wallaby".

Notes:

Kangaroos walk by placing their front feet on the ground and then lifting their back feet while holding their weight between their front feet and their very muscular tail. They then place their back feet just outside their front feet. Repeat.

The curving lines you see over (or in front of) the foot prints is from the drag of the tail.

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Comments (9)
lori.tas
Hey Alice, I found the square wombie poo: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7323523
lori.tas
I like this new mission a lot. I see lots of signs of our mainly nocturnal marsupials, and I've even got a book called "Tracks, Scats and Other Traces: a field guide to Australian Mammals", so that I can make better sense of what I find. I'm still looking for the square poo pics.
courtneyhitson
Really?! Never heard that before! Hoping to get some decent pictures of "signs of wildlife" soon myself. Really like these wallaby prints!
lori.tas
By all means, Alice. Post some scat. I'll see if I've got a decent photo of Wombat poo - it's square, really.
alicelongmartin
Thanks Lori, I didn't know. I guess I could take a picture of my coon's droppings! I like the paw prints and the explanation.
lori.tas
HI Frazier, NOAH added a new mission "Signs of Wildlife", so I've been adding some of my images that suit that category.

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PublishedSeptember 7, 2011

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