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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

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

"Not likely, ma'am," Carnaby answered, "unless it was Lord Quorn, and this little wallaby tells us he is in bed."

From A Poached Peerage by William Magnay

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

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

The dingoes forced Peet into the surf, deploying the same hunting strategy that rangers say they use against large prey such as kangaroos and wallabies.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2023

On one Australian island, the light was so disruptive that wallabies, whose gestation is normally triggered by the summer solstice, ended up giving birth so much later in the season that food had run out.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 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