I do like the swamp wallabies. Like koalas they are loners so I only see a single one at a time. Sometimes when breeding a pair will remain together for a day or two. The habitat here is perfect for this wallaby as they feed on bushes and shrubs as well as grasses.
The swamp wallaby is also a marsupial, so they give birth to a tiny pinky which crawls into mums pouch to drink milk and become a joey.
They have lovely colouring I feel. Thank you for enjoying the dragon the past 2 days, and for you many thoughtful comments :)
@vignouse there is fencing - barbed wire. I have removed fencing from some boundaries as work on vegetation is done and replaced it with shrub fences. There will always be a wire fence between me and my back neighbour however as they have cattle which would ruin my regeneration works!
Wallabies and kangaroos are not stopped at all by fences, they simply hop over them :)
@shepherdman it's funny how people think kangaroos are on every street corner when obviously they are not :) koalas too are not found in many parts of Australia, let alone as their trees are being decimated, but they only ever inhabited a very small percentage of the country.
We do have many awesome myths here, and the realities we have outstrip the myths by a long shot!
@haskar I do like the way we can use an image to give a perception of something :) He is indeed hopping towards me, however he is still around 50 m away and just after I got this snap he made a sharp turn to his right and went off down one of my quad bike paths :)
@beryl nature is indeed amazingly strange! there are many animals that are loners, think about my beautiful bearded dragon - she owns that log she sits on and she is always alone there.
We have many native bees here that are also loners, very different to the introduced european honey bee which must have the strength of the hive to survive.
It seems that for some animals strength comes from being in numbers, while for others it does not. Most breeds of wallaby do live in mobs just as do most kangaroos. The swamp wallaby is quite different in many aspects to all the other wallabies. So nature seems to manage to produce every possible variety :)
Wallabies and kangaroos are not stopped at all by fences, they simply hop over them :)
We do have many awesome myths here, and the realities we have outstrip the myths by a long shot!
We have many native bees here that are also loners, very different to the introduced european honey bee which must have the strength of the hive to survive.
It seems that for some animals strength comes from being in numbers, while for others it does not. Most breeds of wallaby do live in mobs just as do most kangaroos. The swamp wallaby is quite different in many aspects to all the other wallabies. So nature seems to manage to produce every possible variety :)