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And last year, the Tasmanian tourist board posted "adverts" for jobs including wallaby walker and paranormal investigator, in a bid to encourage more tourism to the island during the off-season.

From BBC ● May 16, 2025

It was most likely a mid-speed hopper, something like a swamp wallaby.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2024

Researchers in Australia reintroduced “ecosystem engineers” including species of rat and wallaby, to areas from which they had disappeared.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 9, 2023

Edwardsville law enforcement and animal control from nearby Bonner Springs responded to calls about the unusual highway sight of a joey, which some mistook for a wallaby.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 30, 2023

The animals on which they subsisted chiefly, were the emu, kangaroo, wallaby, and the opossum: the latter living in trees.

From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by John West

The listing price for Inchconnachan, which has a colony of wild wallabies, is $4 million, or $13.5 million with a completed home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

They believed wallabies were likely first brought to the UK for zoos as well as for private collections in the late 19th Century.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025

Large marsupials like kangaroos and wallabies tended to avoid burrows, unless they had been flooded with rainwater; then they used them as watering holes.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

Abroad, studies have shown wildlife crossings save money and lives, both human and animal, including saving jaguars in Mexico and wallabies and bandicoots in Australia.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

Boa constrictors, Komodo dragons, croc­odiles, piranhas, ostriches, wolves, lynx, wallabies, manatees, porcupines, orangutans, wild boar—that’s the sort of rainfall you could expect on your umbrella.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel