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Red-necked wallaby looks like a small kangaroo but it isn't. They are
very cute. Kangaroos of smaller size, are
commonly called wallabies and are usually brighter in color then the
kangaroo. The Red-necked wallaby is mostly grey with a rusty red color on its neck, this is how it gets its name. The dark nose is marked by two light-cream stripes. The wallaby's thick tail is grey, underneath is lighter with a brown-black tip. Their body height is up 100cm for the males sitting on their haunches and about 80cm for the females. The male Red-Necked Wallaby has a darker red spot then the female. The tail is longer in relation to its body than other kangaroos and is used as a prop when the animal sits or jumps.
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The Red-necked
wallabies live on the east coast of Australia. They live in Victoria,
Tasmania, NSW and Queensland. They are related to the Tasmanian and the
Mainland varieties of the Bennett's
Wallaby. Red-necked wallabies live in small herds in lightly wooded eucalypt forests. Its diet is grass and leaves from bushes and drinks from a water hole. They rest during the day and feed in the open at dusk. Did you now they can survive one drink a day? In some zoos they feed them fruit and leaves from bushes. The enemies of young Red-necked wallabies are dingoes, foxes and eagles. |
| Did you now, that Red-
necked
wallabies has two baby wallabies a year? The babies time in the pouch is from 269 to 285 days. The young joeys don't stay beside their mothers' sides in the first months after they have left the pouch like other wallaby joeys, they feed and hide near cover and their mothers move around and feed in more open spaces. Young females stay near their mothers and can start breeding from 18 months. |
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Fact File Name: is Macropus rufogriseus
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