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wallaby

[wol-uh-bee] / ˈwɒl ə bi /


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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

They scorned the lesser creatures whose flesh had fed them hitherto, and expected to taste wallaby or kangaroo flesh every night.

From Finn The Wolfhound by Robert Hugh Buxton

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

Helen Pearson, head of animal studies at Suffolk Rural, which has its own wallabies, said they could survive "quite well" in the UK.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025

The study compared using B. pinnata solution and the real plant and found both were equally successful at protecting eucalyptseedlings from being eaten by wallabies.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2024

Two passersby rescued the woman from the dingoes after they chased her into the surf, using the same hunting technique they use for larger prey such as wallabies, Behrendorff said.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2023

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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