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Whiptail Wallaby
Macropus parryi

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Common Name: Whiptail Wallaby or Pretty-face Wallaby
Scientific Name: Macropus parryi
Family: Macropodidae
Colour:

The Whiptail Wallaby is very colourfully marked. Above, its colour is light-grey in winter and more brownish-grey in summer. Their is a distinctive white face-stripe, an upper lip stripe and a hip stripe. Its forehaed and ear-base is dark brown in colour.
Form: The Whiptail Wallaby is quite distinctive. Its tail is long, slender nd tapering. It hops upright with its tail held high.
Distribution: It occurs in north-eastern New South Wales and eastern Queensland to Cooktown.
Habitat: The Whiptail Wallaby occurs in open eucalypt woodland where there is grass, often on a slope or hills.
Nests: Whiptail Wallabies do not use nests.
Food: Browses on shrubs and bushes. They also eat agricultural crops and pine needle seedlings.
Predators: Unknown.
Human Influence: The European practice of ring-barking trees has allowed more grsses to grow in forests. This may have allowed their range to extend. However, total forest clearing is clearly detrimental.
Abundance: The Whiptail Wallaby is common in its habitat.
Features: The Whiptail Wallaby is crespuscular, coming out at dawn and dusk to feed. It is also nocturnal, also feeding at night. It is gregarious and occurs in sub-groups of up to ten in number. Sometimes groups of up to fifty occur. If alarmed, it will lodly thump its hindfoot.
Measurements:
Male Measurements   Female Measurements  
Male head-body length: 92.4 cm Female head-body length: 75.5 cm
Male tail length: 94.1 cm Female tail length: 78.1 cm
Male weight: 16 kg Female weight: 11 kg
Breeding:
Oestrus Cycle: polyoestrous Size of Litter: 1
Season: possibly all year Suckling Period: 450 days
Gestation: 38 days Sexual maturity: 24 months
    Embryo delay: yes
 
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