Swamp Wallabies

The swamp wallaby is one of the few browsing wallabies to have survived the late Cainozoic grazing kangaroos. Its diet is almost exclusively ferns, hemlock, eucalypt leaves, dogwood, sedges and rushes. It does not normally eat grasses and clovers like many large kangaroos. Whilst it prefers wet or dry sclerophyll forests, swamp wallabies also occur in rainforests, woodland and heathland.

Births normally occur between May and Auguest. An adult female is capable of raising one young every eight months.

 

Source of information : Archer, Michael - The Kangaroo, Weldons Pty Limited 1985, McMahons Point Australia