wallaby
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A wallaby hastily bounds towards sparse gum trees.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024
The experiment, conducted in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park in Sydney, used the swamp wallaby as model herbivore.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 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
There is no sign of life or what has been life, except here and there the roasted carcase of a wallaby or kangaroo.
From Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil by Howard Willoughby
Inchconnachan, which has a colony of wild wallabies, is asking around $4 million, or $13.5 million with a completed home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
A research paper in 2020 by Holly M. English of University College Dublin and Anthony Caravaggi of the University of South Wales looked into wallabies in the UK.
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
As well, dwarf wallabies had another surprise for the researchers: The two dwarf species had different teeth that were the biggest.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 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
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