Macropodidae 

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  Antilopine Wallaroo
  by Stuart Cooney

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  An Antilopine Wallaroo (Macropus antilopinus) pauses among the termite mounds to check me out before bounding back into the scrub, west of Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia. Featured in the group Australian Wildlife

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  Wallaroo
  by Laurie Puglia

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  / A wallaroo is any of three closely related species of moderately large macropod, intermediate in size between the kangaroos and the wallabies. The name “wallaroo” is a portmanteau of wallaby and kangaroo. In general, a large, slim-bodied macropod of the open plains is called a “kangaroo”; a small to medium-sized one, particularly if it is relatively thick-set, is a “wallaby”: most wallaroos are only a little smaller than a kangaroo, fairly thickset, and are found in open country. All share a particular habit of stance: wrists raised, elbows tucked close into the body, and shoulders thrown back, and all have a large, black-skinned rhinarium. The best-known species is Macropus robustus, which is known as the Eastern Wallaroo, Common Wallaroo or just Wallaroo on the slopes of the Great Dividing Range (which runs for more than 3,000 km around the eastern and south-eastern coast of Australia), and as the Euro in most of the rest of the continent. There are four subspecies: the Eastern Wallaroo and the Euro, which are both widespread, and two of more restricted range, one from Barrow Island, the other from the Kimberley. The Black Wallaroo (Macropus bernardus) occupies an area of steep, rocky ground in Arnhem Land. At around 60 to 70 cm in length (excluding tail) it is the smallest wallaroo and the most heavily built. Males weigh 19 to 22 kg, females about 13 kg. Because it is very wary and is found only in a small area of remote and very rugged country, it is remarkably little known. The Antilopine Wallaroo (Macropus antilopinus) is the exception among wallaroos. It is, essentially, the far-northern equivalent of the Eastern and Western Grey Kangaroos. Like them, it is a creature of the grassy plains and woodlands, and gregarious, where the other wallaroos are solitary. Because of this difference, it is sometimes called the Antilopine Kangaroo.[1]

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  Red Kangaroo
  by William Bullimore

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  Wallaby
  by Tom Newman

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  Taken at Melbourne Zoo Australia / A wallaby is any of about thirty species of macropod (Family Macropodidae). It is an informal designation generally used for any macropod that is smaller than a kangaroo or wallaroo that has not been given some other name. / Wallabies are widely distributed across Australia, particularly in more remote, heavily timbered, or rugged areas, less so on the great semi-arid plains that are better suited to the larger, leaner, and more fleet-footed kangaroos. They are widespread in New Zealand, where they are often hunted. There are also a few populations of wallabies in the British Isles all having escaped from zoos, the largest of which can be found on the Isle of Man where there is a breeding colony of around 100. / Wikapedia / D300. Lens 18-200mm VR ED / 200mm f/8.0, 1/250s, ISO 400

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  You’ve got 3 seconds…
  by Stuart Cooney

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  …and then I’m off. I stumbled on this Black-flanked Rock-Wallaby (_Petrogale lateralis _) half way up a rocky knoll near Mount Eaglebeak in the Eastern MacDonnell Ranges, central Australia. It was a good day because I found a family of Dusky Grasswrens and saw Little Woodswallows at the same place! This Rock-wallaby is very important for many of the Arrernte people who live around Hart’s Range and Mount Eaglebeak for whom it has spiritual significance.

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  Black-flanked Rock Wallaby
  by Stuart Cooney

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  A Black-flanked Rock-Wallaby (Petrogale lateralis) on a rocky knoll near Mount Eaglebeak in the Eastern MacDonnell Ranges, central Australia. Featured in the group Northern Territory on 11 May, 2009