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wallaby

[wol-uh-bee] / ˈwɒl ə bi /


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"Enquiries were completed and the wallaby was safely reunited with its owner shortly after 10am."

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 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

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

As a fact, he was in no real need of killing, for he had fed during the afternoon on the remains of the wallaby he had dragged up the hill early that morning.

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

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

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

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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