BENNET´S WALLABY

CHARACTERISTICS: Its tail is short and muscular. The ears are very mobile and immediately point to the direction of any sound. Their colour is not very vivid, of a yellowish-grey, a little redder around the neck. The hands, feet, tip of the snout and the borders of the ears are black.
DIET: Grass and leaves, as well as the bark of trees, fruits and thickets.
REPRODUCTION: After 33 days gestation a baby wallaby is born, still virtually an embryo. A few days after the birth the females mate again. The embryo halts its development until the one that was born before it leaves the marsupium, after 190-200 days. Shortly afterwards the next offspring will be born and the mother will mate again. At this time, the female will have three little ones under her charge: one outside the pouch, still suckling; another inside the pouch completing its development and an embryo in the uterus.
CURIOSITIES: During the day they tend to remain hidden, at night they come out to graze. They tend to pass the hottest hours of the day either sleeping or snoozing.