📸 PhotoPhoto: Martin Rady · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby
Petrogale penicillata (Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby · オグロイワワラビー)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its maximum weight of 10.9 kg is slightly heavier than a 10 kg bag of rice, and its maximum body length of 58.6 cm is about 2 times the long side of A4 paper (29.7 cm) (Comparison).
- 💡 Captive populations are a focus of behavioral, management, and genetic research as well as education.
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 Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby is a wallaby living on rocky cliffs in Australia; once widespread, its numbers have declined and it is assessed as Vulnerable (VU) on the IUCN Red List.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
It has a dull brown back, a paler chest and belly, a reddish rump, and black feet. Its tail is slightly longer than its body and ends in a bushy brush.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
It feeds mainly on grasses, supplemented by leaves, sedges, ferns, roots, fruits, and flowers. It lives in small colonies with dominance hierarchies and breeds year-round.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List VU (2016) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/16746/21955754
- • IUCN Red List category VU — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • mammaldiversity.org — 1000303
- • iucnredlist.org — 21955754
- • wikidata.org — Q209582
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Petrogale penicillata 231087447.jpg
- • animaldiversity.org — Petrogale penicillata
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Lani Mohan · CC0 1.0
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.