What does a wallaby look like a smaller version of?

Answer 1

The Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby is the largest of the rock wallaby species, with adults having a head to body length of between 48 and 65 cm, and a tail length of 57 to 70 cm. Adults weigh between 6 and 11 kg.

The Yellow-footed Rock wallaby has yellow to orange coloured limbs, hence its name. The fur on its abdomen is cream, and the rest of its body is grey. Its tail has distinctive yellow and brown stripes.

Answer 2

A wallaby is a member of the kangaroo family, and thus looks like a smaller version of a kangaroo. The red-necked wallaby is the largest type of wallaby, with males reaching a height of about 1 metre and females 80cm. Smaller wallabies may average around 45 - 55 cm in height.

It has long back feet, on which it can stand upright. Its thighs are parallel to the ground, but its lower legs go at a 90 degree angle to its thighs, so that they're perpendicular to the ground. It stands on its long feet. The rest of its body is diagonal to the ground.

It has short front legs that it does not need for balance, except for grazing and walking slowly. Its head has a long snout and large, triangular ears. Its tail is long and thick, and it often aids in balancing.

Colours vary. While essentially variations of grey, wallabies have different coloured extremities, according to the species.

• The red-necked wallaby, for example, has rusty red neck, more pronounced in males than in females, with two cream coloured stripes on its dark nose, and a thick, long, grey tail with a dark tip.
• The Yellow-footed rock wallaby, on the other hand, has yellow banded stripes on the tail, yellow forelges and yellow feet, with a grey-brown body.
• The Brush-tailed wallaby is covered with thick, brown fur, which is paler on its chest and belly. It has dark brown back legs and tail (the tail tends to be dark reddish-brown), with black paws and feet. It is distinctive for its cream stripe that runs from its snout to ear on both cheeks, and a black stripe from its forehead to the back of its head. The reason it is called a brush-tailed wallaby is because its tail seems to have a "brush" at the end.

Answer 3

A wallaroo is one of the sixty or so members of the kangaroo family. In size, it is between the kangaroo and the wallaby.

A wallaroo has a stockier body than its larger cousins, the Red or Grey kangaroos. A wallaroo 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.

Answer 4

The red-necked wallaby is the largest type of wallaby, with males reaching a height of about 1 metre and females 80cm. Although it's mostly grey in colour, its rusty red neck is what gives the red-necked wallaby its name, and the red is more pronounced in males than in females. It has two cream coloured stripes on its dark nose. It has a thick, long, grey tail with a dark tip.

Answer 5

• Brush tailed rock wallabies can grow to the following size:
  • Males: 53-59 cm in head and body length with a tail length of 51 - 70 cm; weight ranges from 5.5-10.9 kg.
  • Females: 51 - 57 cm in head and body length with a tail length of 50 - 63 cm; weight ranges from 4.9-8.2 kg.
• It is covered with thick, brown fur, which is paler on its chest and belly.
• It has dark brown back legs and tail (the tail tends to be dark reddish-brown), with black paws and feet.
• It is distinctive for its cream stripe that runs from its snout to ear on both cheeks, and a black stripe from its forehead to the back of its head.
• The reason it is called a brush-tailed wallaby is because its tail seems to have a "brush" at the end.

To see a picture of the brush tailed rock wallaby, click on the link below.

Answer 6

Wallabies are marsupials, and members of the kangaroo family. Special features of wallabies include:

• The mother wallaby spends most of her adult life pregnant, but in drought times, she has the ability to indefinitely "freeze" the development of the young embryo until food sources are replenished.
• The mother can also produce two different types of milk to suit the needs of two different aged joeys. She might have a more mature joey that spends less time in the pouch, while a very young embryo has attached itself to a teat. Each joey has different milk requirements - which the mother is able to supply.
• Wallabies are particularly agile, more able to hop up and down slopes than their larger relatives, the Red and Grey kangaroos. Wallabies have large, strong tendons in their hind legs which act as "springs", and they hide in bushland where they can quickly and easily escape from potential predators, dodging back and forth between trees and up and down slopes.
• Wallabies' hind legs move independently of each other, and they have long, strong tails for balancing.
• Wallabies have the ability to hear very well: they can twitch their ears independently around to determine the direction of specific sounds, much as a cat does.

Answer 7

A wallaby looks like a smaller version of a kangaroo.