Because they found out it was easier than walking.
Wallabies can jump you are correct, wallabies can approximately jump 3 feet.
Red Kangaroos and Grey Kangaroos jump higher than wallabies. Wallabies are smaller members of the kangaroo family so they cannot jump as high. They are better built for leaping up and down hillsides and rocky slopes.
Wallabies have similar structural adaptations to enable them to hop, just like their larger macropod relatives, the kangaroos. they have large, strong tendons in their hind legs which act as "springs". They have strong back legs and elongated hind feet for bounding.
No, wallabies do not migrate. Sometimes they will move on to new food sources, but they are more likely than their nomadic cousins, the kangaroos, to stay in one place, particularly the rock wallabies.
There are swamp wallabies, scrub wallabies and rock wallabies. The average rock wallaby can jump two and a half times its own height, and can safely leap down from much greater heights. In normal jumping, their focus is more on forward speed and distance, rather than height.
Wallabies have colouring that enables them to camouflage naturally within their habitat. Whether they are rock wallabies, swamp wallabies or brush wallabies, they tend to blend in with their environment.
Wallabies eat grass, herbs, leaves, fruit and plants. Wallabies are herbivores.
Wallabies do not live in the desert.
The plural of wallaby is wallabies.
No. There are lots of wallabies still in existence.
No. Wallabies do not live in water.
No. Wallabies are native to Australia.