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Wallaby in Australia

Wallaby is an animal largely found in Australia and several other places in the world. It can also be termed as miniature kangaroo. Wallaby looks like a kangaroo. Though it is smaller in size than it.

Wallaby belongs to the marsupial family. The macropod group has total 30 species of animals and wallaby is one of them. The tribe known as Eora Aboriginal, who used to live in Sydney, gave this name "wallaby".

However, the kids of the wallabies are called "joeys". Among the 30 species of the wallabies, some are closer to the kangaroos than the others. These species are the Agile Wallaby, the Black Wallaby, the Red-Necked Wallaby etc.

The wallabies generally live till their age of 15. To talk about their features, wallabies are usually 2 to 3
feet tall and they look just like a kangaroo. These beautiful wallabies are very shy in nature and prefer to stay alone.

Wallabies are herbivores creatures that eat grass, leaves, and roots.

They swallow their food without chewing it and later reiterate a cud and chew it.

They need very little water; they can go for months without drinking, and they dig their own water wells.

A wallaby is any of about 30 species of macroped (family macropodidae).

Essentially, a wallaby is any macropod that isn't considered large enough to be a kangaroo and has not been given some other name.

There is no fixed dividing line. The different types of wallabies live in many types of habitats, including rocky areas, grasslands, forests and swamps.

The weight of a wallaby is almost 40 pounds. The main foods of these wallabies are fruits and different types of vegetables such as wheat bread, grass, young shoots of trees, various small plants and so on.

These little relatives of kangaroos also have a pouch in their body.

When a baby wallaby is born it is very small in size and stays in the pouch of the mother wallaby.

During this period the mother wallaby feeds its baby with its milk.

Another species of these wallabies is the rock wallabies.

They usually live in the rocky regions of Australia. These rock wallabies have similarity with goats rather than with the kangaroos