Species group · Mammals
WAnimals has 6 species of wallaby, in the family Macropodidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 6.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
Least ConcernRed-necked Wallaby
Notamacropus rufogriseus
Least ConcernAgile Wallaby
Notamacropus agilis
Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby
Petrogale penicillata
Swamp Wallaby
Wallabia bicolor
Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby
Petrogale xanthopus
Bridled Nailtail Wallaby
Onychogalea fraenata
2 species in this group are in a threatened category according to the IUCN.
Recorded in 7 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
There is a stable feral population in the forest of Rambouillet, near Paris, descended from animals that escaped from a zoological park in the 1970s.
From Red-necked Wallaby
The female can hold an embryo suspended in diapause for months and restart its development just as the previous joey leaves the pouch.
From Red-necked Wallaby
In the dry season it digs into the sandy beds of rivers to reach groundwater, creating wells that other animals then use.
From Agile Wallaby
It is the only wallaby living both in Australia and on the island of New Guinea, separated by the Torres Strait.
From Agile Wallaby
It leaps between vertical ledges with astonishing precision, and can climb sloping trunks and almost smooth walls using the rough pads of its feet.
Between 1884 and 1914 more than half a million rock-wallaby skins were exported from New South Wales, an exploitation that collapsed its populations before anyone had studied the species.
It is the only marsupial whose gestation outlasts its own oestrous cycle.
From Swamp Wallaby
Females can be effectively pregnant without a break throughout their breeding lives.
From Swamp Wallaby