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Wallabies Rock!
Overseas visitors find Australia’s kangaroos endearing, but how many have seen our rock-wallabies? These reclusive marsupials live among boulders of large rock outcrops and are quite difficult to sight. But once seen, their beauty is hard to forget.
All the 15 species have long, draping tails and stumpy little arms which they hold out in front as they make death-defying leaps across chasms and up sheer rock faces. The tails, which function like aerial rudders, are long, fluffy and beautiful. In the Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby, the tail is decorated with golden rings.
The Brush-tailed and the Yellow-footed are two of the species which are turning in their “endangered” badges, thanks to the efforts of some heroic researchers.
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