Pretty-faced Wallaby

Pretty-faced Wallaby

The Pretty-faced Wallaby is distinguished by its paler colouring and white stripe under its face. Their faces have a chocolate-brown fur covering their muzzle. They are black and white on its chest and the rest is grey to brown fur. Males weigh from 14 to 26 kilograms and stand at a height from 70 to 93 cm. Females weigh from 7 to 15 kilograms and stand at a height from 65 to 75 cm.
Their diet is grass, plants and ferns. Their habitat is open euclypt forests where the ground is full of grass for them to eat.
It is a sociable species, sometimes coming together in mobs of up to 50. It is neither diurnal nor nocturnal, being active at any time of day or night. The Pretty-faced Wallaby feeds on grasses and ferns.[3]
The Whiptail wallaby lives in mobs that number up to 50 individuals. They live in a home range of up to 110 hectares. The mob usually gathers in the afternoon during feeding. Some home ranges may overlap with others and the member of the mob take turns resting and guarding. Wallaby mobs have a linear hierarchy that is determined by ritualized “pawing” which is non-violent. They may also pull grass. Wallabies will cough to show submission.
The most dominant males mate with the females. A male will wander though a gathering of female stiffing their cloacae and tasting their urine. When a male finds a female close to estrous, he stays with her. However before she enters estrous, he may be replace by a more dominant male. The estrous cycle for a Whiptail Wallaby lasts for only 42 days.
Joeys stay in their mother’s pouches for the first nine months. When they leave will they will still stay with them for up to 18 months. Unlike the young of some other macropods, Whiptail joeys follow their mother continuously and do not hide in vegetation. Subadult male wallaby sometimes leave their natal groups.
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