Brushed-tailed+Rock+Wallaby

Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby-//Petrogale penicillata//



**Phyla:** Chordata Class: Mammalia  **Location**: From Great Dividing Range in Australia to northern Victoria  **Size:** Has a body length of about 450mm and a tail length of 610mm. **Habitat:** Brush-tailed Rock Wallabies like to live where there are lots of rocks and caves. They enjoy to have rocky cliffs to jump on. They like to have plent of grass, trees, and fruit to feed on. They like to have huge rocks near them to shelter them from rain. They can alsos be found in rainforest habitats. **Living Requirements:** Brush-tailed Rock Wallabies feed during the late night and early mornings. They feed on different kinds of grasses, fruits, leaves from trees, and bark. They need huge rocks or caves to take shelter from rain. **Life Cycle:** The male wallabies reach maturity about 22 months old, and females reach maturity in 18 months old. The pregnancy of the female lasts up to 31 months. The joey is born and immediately enters the mother's pouch. It will stay in the pouch for about seven months. It leaves the pouch but comes back until it is fully weaned. Weaning takes up to three months after it leaves the pouch. Breeding for the wallabies occurs all year long. **Male and Female Differences: **There are not many differences between males and females except for the male is a little bit longer than the female. The females have a pouch to hold the joey as it is born. **Interesting Facts: **
 * Brush-tailed Rock Wallabies are able to climb trees with thier sharp claws and long legs.
 * There has been small colonies of them found in Hawaii.

**Human Impact:** Humans have helped the wallabies because they are endangered and are close to being extincted. There are several conservation centers that keep wallabies and kangaroos to help them survive.

Brush-tailed Wallabies have been endangered due to population decrease. Some of it is the cause of wildfires. To help them survive some of them have been put in conservations around the world. The worlds largest kangaroo conservation in Dawsonville, GA keeps many species of Wallabies.

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