📸 PhotoPhoto: Matthew Wakefield · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Tammar Wallaby
Notamacropus eugenii (Tammar Wallaby · Tammar Wallaby)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 A male's maximum weight of 9.1 kg is slightly lighter than a 10 kg bag of rice, and a height of about 45 cm is similar to the seat height of a standard chair (Comparison).
- 💡 It is an important animal in scientific research, though it sometimes damages grain crops, eats livestock feed, and breaks fences.
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.
📖 1. Overview
The Tammar Wallaby is the smallest of the wallabies and lives in dense scrub, low woodland, and forest edge thickets.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
It has a small head, large ears, and a long tail that is thick at the base. Its hind legs are much larger than its forelegs for hopping, its belly is gray to yellow, and its legs are reddish.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
It is an herbivore specialized for grazing on grasses. Gestation lasts 25–28 days, producing a single young that stays in the pouch for 8–9 months, and the species exhibits embryonic diapause (delayed implantation).
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List LC (2016) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/41512/21953803
- • IUCN Red List category LC — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • mammaldiversity.org — 1000280
- • iucnredlist.org — 21953803
- • wikidata.org — Q109262318
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Macropus eugenii.jpg
- • animaldiversity.org — Macropus eugenii
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Geoff Shaw · CC BY 4.0
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.