Wallaroos

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 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.

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.

the males segment is round. the females segment is pointy

A wallaroo is a marsupial.

Wallaroos, which are known as euros in some parts of Australia, are found across most of the Australian mainland, depending on their species, except in the southern extremities, or on the island of Tasmania. The antilopine wallaroo, for example, is only found in the northern regions of the continent.

Wallaroos tend to live on rocky slopes in the Great Dividing Range, which runs along Australia's eastern coast. Although their stocky, muscular build makes their gait somewhat awkward on flat plains, they can leap effortlessly up these rocky slopes. They are also found inland further, in the central highlands of the states.

Apart from the obvious difference with the males and females having different reproductive organs, and the fact that the female has a pouch, the main difference is in the size. Male wallaroos are larger and, depending on the species, may grow to be twice as large as the female of their own species.

Male wallaroos also tend to be darker grey to black in colour, while the females are paler grey. Euros are a species of wallaroo, and while euros tend to be reddish in colour, the female is still paler than the male, with its extremities (paws and tail) not having quite the same striking black that the male has.

No. Wallaroos, also known as euros, do not live in Tasmania.

Wallaroos are endemic to Australia.

Wallaroos, like other members of the kangaroo family, tend to have just one joey at a time. The wallaroo is unique in that it has the ability to suspend the development of another embryo until external conditions, such as availability of food, are right for the emergence of another young.

However, it is not unusual for a female wallaroo to have two different aged joeys in her pouch at the same time. It is extremely unusual for a wallaroo to have more than one joey of the same age at any given time, but twins have been observed on rare occasions.

Mature female wallaroos often spend their lives in a state of constant pregnancy. As an older joey moves closer to being weaned, a new young embryo makes its way to the pouch, where it will attach to a teat and stay there during its development. In times of drought or food shortage, the mother wallaroo will actually suspend the development of the embryo until a better time.

Yes it is. The wallaroo is a member of the kangaroo family.

No. This is not a characteristic of wallaroos.

Wallaroos usually live in rocky slopes of the high country where they will hide and rest during the day and come out to eat grass and small shrubs at night.

Wallaroos particularly like grasses, sedges, tussock grasses and forbs (low-growing, broad-leafed herbaceous plants).

Wallaroos are found in Australia alone.

Contrary to popular opinion, they are not a mixture of kangaroos and wallabies, but are separate species of their own.