Tammar Wallaby

The 2000 IUCN Red list of Threatened Species (1994) list this sub species at Lower Risk/Near threatened.
The subspecies Macropus e. eugenii on the 2000 IUCN Red list of Threatened Species (1994) is listed as extinct.

Update;

Now in 2005 according to "Conservation News" by the Conservation and Land Management WA. The Tammar wallaby has been removed from the threatened species list.

The Tammar wallaby is approx up to 68cm long in its body length, the tail is approx 45cm long and it weighs up to 10kg.

Lives only in a few places in the south-west of Western Australia such as Tutanning Nature Reserve, Dryandra Woodlands, Perup forests and off-shore Islands. We were fortunate to see a small mob at Perup Ecology Centre out foraging in the day but they are usually nocturnal.

There are three subspecies in Australia.

Black-gloved wallabies also look similar to the Tammar wallaby but the Black-glove has darker front feet, a black bushier tail and is slightly larger. Both these wallabies have the white stripe down their cheeks.

The upper jaw has a total of 6 incisors, no canines, 2 premolars and 8 molars.

The lower jaw has a total of 2 incisors, no canines, 2 premolars and 8 molars.

Habitat

The Tammar wallaby's mainly graze on grasses but they use the Maluka thickets and dense vegetation for shelter which are very important plants to this species of macropod. Finding these plants will help you find this animal.

Perup Ecology Centre Boyup Brook

This macropod also walks on all four limbs moving the front legs forward through the middle with the back legs being on the outside and moved together while leaning on the front feet.

These macropods will also leave a well used path or highway where they travel frequently, this is another way of seeing if they live in a certain place.

They also communicate through coughs and barks to one another which you could hear before you see them.

Scats

Perup Ecology Centre Boyup Brook

The Tammar Wallaby has the typical macropod scats.

Update:

This Tammar Wallaby was seen at Tutanning Nature Reserve in the wheatbelt in November.

http://www.redlist.org/search/search-basic.html
Go here to learn about how the Tammar wallaby can change the amount and composition of milk that it feeds to its joey and different stages in the joey's life. http://journals.endocrinology.org/jme/021/0169/0210169.pdf
http://www.esl.com.au/wildlife/tammar.htm Go here to find out where you can see Tammar wallabies