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wallaby

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wallaby: see kangaroo kangaroo, name for a variety of hopping marsupials , or pouched mammals, of the family Macropodidae, found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. The term is applied especially to the large kangaroos of the genus Macropus.
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wallaby

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Bridled nail-tailed wallaby (Onychogalea fraenata).
(credit: © Mitch Reardon—National Audubon Society Collection/Photo Researchers)
Any of about 25 species of medium-sized kangaroos, found chiefly in Australia. Brush wallabies (11 species) are built like the big kangaroos but differ in dentition. Rock wallabies live among rocks, usually near water. Nail-tailed wallabies, named for a horny growth on the tail tip, rotate their forelimbs while hopping. The small hare wallabies resemble hares in movement and some habits. The small, stocky scrub wallabies, hunted for meat and fur, have short hind limbs and pointy noses. The similar short-tailed scrub wallaby occurs only on two offshore islands of western Australia. Several wallaby species have been exterminated, and several others are endangered.



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During his 17-year tenure, Thomas assembled one of the world's most acclaimed animal collections, adding rare and endangered species such as the Sumatran rhino, Jentink's duiker, zebra duiker, yellow-footed rock wallaby, giant eland, gerenuk, emperor tamarin, and bongo.
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Some, such as his shot of an albino wallaby with delicately crossed paws and eyes narrowed as if against something painful, are gently otherworldly; others, such as the study of an explosion suspended in a cool, green glen, are more patently strange.
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Leap for the sky"), is accompanied by an illustration of similar invention, interjecting vertical lines of Bs among the letters forming the word wallaby.
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