wallaby
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A wallaby hastily bounds towards sparse gum trees.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024
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
It is legal to own a wallaby in Oklahoma, but the animal should be registered with the city, Daniels said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
The sorts used for carriage aprons, coat linings and the outside of motor coats include: blue kangaroo, bush kangaroo, bridled kangaroo, wallaroo, yellow kangaroo, rock wallaby, swamp wallaby and short-tailed wallaby.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
For hours on end, we cruise around, seeing parrots, wallabies, a goanna and a couple of echidnas - but no numbats.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
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
To explore how these massive animals moved, Megan Jones and her colleagues examined the hindlimbs of 94 modern specimens and 40 fossil specimens representing 63 species of kangaroos and wallabies.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2026
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
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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