They are listed as lower risk, but not endangered.

Wallaroos are classified differently according to the species of wallaby, but none of the species are endangered.

For example, the common wallaroo is listed as "abundant", while the antilopine wallaroo is listed as "not threatened".

The red-necked wallaby, also known as Bennett's wallaby, is not endangered, nor in any immediate danger of being classified as threatened, vulnerable or endangered. Its current IUCN status is "least concern". It is even considered a pest in New Zealand, to which it has been introduced.

The Eastern Wallaroo lives on the hillsides and rugged terrain of the Great Dividing Range, which runs right down the eastern coast of Australia and ends in western Victoria. It lives among the eucalyptus bushland of these areas.

Wallaroo joeys (joey being the name for any baby marsupial) are born about 2cm long. The joey emerges from the birth canal, just as any mammal young does, but it is very undeveloped, completely blind and hairless, and cannot survive for any length of time outside its mother's pouch. Moving by instinct only, it crawls up the mother's fur to the pouch, where it attaches to a teat. The teat then swells in the joey's mouth, securing it through all the mother's movement so it cannot be dislodged, until it has grown for several weeks.

Wallaroo joeys spend at least 6 months in the mother's pouch before they star making forays out into the world. After they leave the pouch for good, they continue to be nursed for another couple of months, only placing just their heads in the mother's pouch to suckle until weaned.

In the initial stages, the joey stays attached to the teat until it is ready to begin being independent. A mother wallaroo is capable of supporting one joey in the pouch and another joey at foot living permanently outside the pouch but still suckling. When nursing both a joey at foot and a joey in the pouch, the mother produces a different milk concentration for each joey, as each joey has its own teat. Wallaroos and other macropods produce colostrum throughout the entire joey stage, unlike placental mammals that only provide colostrum for a few days after birth.

Wallaroos have "embryonic diapause". This means that the mother can become pregnant soon after birth, but can suspend the development of the joey when it is still an embryo within her body, awaiting a time when conditions may be better suited for the birth of the young joey (for example, if she is already nursing a joey in the pouch or during drought times). This is why female wallaroos of reproductive age spend all of the adult lives pregnant.

Wallaroos live an average of 17 to 19 years in the wild.

There is a misconception that the wallaroo of Australia has furry pads on its feet to help with rock climbing. This is not strictly true. The wallaroo has thickened, rough pads which are well adapted to rock climbing, but they are not furry.

The wallaroo is a member of the kangaroo family, so its family is Macropodidae, or the Macropods. Like all marsupials, its young is known as a joey.

Male wallaroos range from 1 to 1.4 metres in height, while females range between 0.75 to 1 metres in height.

The front legs of a wallaby are known as its forelegs, or forepaws.

The eastern Wallaroo, also known as the Euro, is a heavy-set species of kangaroo, with the male much larger than the female. Females may grow to 80cm in height with a weight of 25kg; males can grow to 1.1 metres, and weight up to 55 kg.

Male wallaroos are darker coloured than the females. They have a very shaggy coat, tending slate-grey to black in colour, while the females are more of a bluish-grey colour, and paler underneath.

The wallaby is the smallest of the three.

However, they are all members of the kangaroo family, and the smallest kangaroo is the musky rat-kangaroo: in which case, the kangaroo is the smallest.

There are no exact figures for the population of wallaroos. The most recent estimates only give numbers of wallaroos in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia. In 2011, there were an estimated 4.383 million wallaroos across those four states.

Wallaroos, also known as Euros, depending on the species, are also found in the Northern Territory, the ACT and the far northeast of Victoria, but there are no figures available for these locations.

Wallaroos live on the continent of Australia.

There is no way to compare a wallaby and a wallaroo in this context. Both serve their place in Australia's ecosystem.

Being quite large marsupials, wallaroos have few enemies, either native or introduced. Dingoes are natural predators of wallaroos while joeys can also be taken by eagles and other birds of prey. Introduced enemies include foxes and domestic dogs.

As is always the case with our wildlife, Man remains wallaroos' biggest enemy. Being crepuscular, feeding at dusk and in the early morning, wallaroos are often hit by vehicles.

Wallaroos live only in Australia.

Wallaroos are strong, stocky creatures with few predators. The only thing that really poses danger to them are humans with guns or humans driving recklessly. Dingoes, Australia's largest predator mammal, will only tackle young or injured wallaroos.

A wallaroo is one of the sixty or so members of the kangaroo family. In size, it is between the kangaroo and the wallaby. There are several species, such as the Antilopine wallaroo, the Black wallaroo and the Euro, of which there are subspecies known as the Common wallaroo, Eastern wallaroo and Barrow Island euro.

A wallaroo has a stockier body than its larger cousins, the Red or Grey kangaroos. A wallaroos is built for bounding up and down steep, rocky slopes and through bushy undergrowth, rather than flat open countryside.

A wallaroo has distinctive dark colouring on its extremities, such as forelegs, hind limbs, tail, nose, ears and face.

The main method of self-defence for a wallaroo is its ability to bound up and down steep and rocky slopes agilely, expending very little energy. Their broad feet have roughened, thickened soles to help give them extra protection and grip for bounding up and down rocky terrain,

Wallaroos are not actively dangerous, as they tend to avoid people, but they are stocky and strong. If a wallaroo did have cause to attack, a person would come off second best.

In size, wallaroos (also known as euros according to their species) are in between kangaroos and wallabies, and their very name is a derivation of both other names. Male wallaroos are very muscular and stocky, and can be over 50 kg in weight while the female is much shorter and smaller, generally averaging 13-25kg, depending on the species.

The wallaroo's life span is between 16 - 18 years.