#wallabies

A yellow-footed rock wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus) grooms itself at Brachina Gorge, Australia

Meet the red-necked pademelon (Thylogale thetis). A relative to kangaroos and wallabies, this critter is a marsupial species that lives in parts of eastern Australia. The shy animal inhabits forests, grassland, or scrub, where it forages for grass, roots, and leaves, typically during the night. Feeding during darker hours helps conceal this animal from predators like dingos and raptors.

Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby, Australia

Black flanked rock wallabies (Petrogale lateralis) are small, agile marsupials that prefer the rocky areas and caves of central and western Australia. These shy mammals emerge at dusk to eat vegetation.

This illustration is signed by Henry Constantine Richter for John Gould's Monograph of the Macropodiae, or Family of Kangaroos (1841-42).