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	Wallaby - July Animal of the Month
		Wallabies are marsupials from the islands of Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand (introduced), and New Guinea.
		Tammar Wallabies are also found in New Zealand where they were transported from the South Australian mainland population which has since been driven to extinction by feral cats and foxes.
		Red-necked Wallabies (Bennett's) are distinguished by their fl nose and paws, white stripe on the upper lip, and grizzled medium grey coat with a reddish wash across the shoulders.
	trianglemetrozoo.com /wallabyjul.asp (693 words)

	Biodiversity - Threatened Species - Tammar Wallaby
		Eighty-five Tammar Wallabies were successfully repatriated from New Zealand in 2003-2004 and were held in quarantine for twelve months at the Monarto Zoological Gardens, pending a full assessment of their state of health.
		In the case of Tammar Wallabies, this procedure entails the careful removal of small pouch young from the captive bred mainland Tammar mothers and the placement of these young into the pouches of Kangaroo Island Tammars.
		Tammar Wallabies are particularly susceptible to predators and it is highly likely that the Kangaroo Island wallabies would also be extinct today, if Foxes had established themselves on Kangaroo Island.
	www.environment.sa.gov.au /biodiversity/tammar.html (2944 words)

	The World Today - Rare wallabies return from extinction
		At dusk one night this week, 10 Tammar wallabies were released onto land from which their ancestors had completely vanished more than 70 years ago.
		ALEXANDRA KIRK: One hundred and fifty years ago, the Tammar wallaby was common on the Adelaide Plains.
		But critically, they're separate subspecies, and the wallabies from across the Tasman are believed to be a genetic match for those that were wiped out from mainland South Australia.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2004/s1235691.htm (753 words)

	Welcome to Kentucky Down Under (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Tammars weigh 0.001 of an ounce when they are born.
		Tammars are the smallest of the Macropods, the big-footed mammals unique to Australia.
		After Tammars are born, they live in their mother's pouch for up to 7-8 months.
	www.kdu.com /tammarwallaby.php (142 words)

	Tammar Wallaby Facts - National Zoo\| FONZ
		Tammar wallabies measure less than 18 inches from the head to the base of the tail, and their tails are about 12 inches long.
		Tammar wallabies spend much of their time in dense vegetation but move into open forest or savanna to feed after dark.
		The tammar wallaby is one of more than 50 species in the family Macropodidae (kangaroos and wallabies), all of which live in Australia, New Guinea, and on nearby islands.
	nationalzoo.si.edu /Animals/AfricanSavanna/fact-wallaby.cfm (379 words)

	R-Zu-2-U - Wallaby Wallabies
		Wallabies should be purchased by you while they are still on the bottle so that they will adapt to you and your environment most readily.
		Wallabies like to loaf in the shade on a hot day and sunbathe on a cold day if the wind is mild.
		Most wallabies do not intentionally dig to get out but they might dig a wallow next to a fence, and therefore provide a means for escape or entrance of a predator.
	www.treasureranch.com /treasure/rzuinfofiles/wallabies.html (2138 words)

	Kangaroo hops in line for genome sequencing
		The type of kangaroo chosen for sequencing is the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii), a relatively small member of the kangaroo family found on islands along Australia's southern and western coasts.
		Researchers are studying the tammar wallaby to gain insights applicable to human reproduction and development; evolution; anatomy and physiology of mammals; and disease susceptibility.
		Tammar wallabies breed once a year, delivering their young on or about the same day each year and then mate again within an hour of delivery, accounting for their population explosion.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-06/nhgr-khi060804.php (732 words)

	Pygmy Pets Exotic Animals
		In fact, wallabies are much more susceptible to heat stress if they cannot find sufficient shade and water than they are to stress caused by low temperatures.
		Additional bedding is added to the corners where they tend to lie down and they are given warm oatmeal with salt and vitamin E mixed in and sweetened with honey in the morning and the evening in addition to their regular feed.
		I learned that, in general, the smaller the wallaby or kangaroo species, the more skittish it is in its temperament and the more likely it is to suffer from stress.
	www.pygmypets.com /wb6.html (748 words)

	N.A.P.A.K - Keeping & Breeding Wallabies - Article Archives
		Wallabies are not difficult to breed in captivity.
		Wallabies are shy, deer-like animals that prefer to stay at home and lead as quiet a life as possible.
		Wallabies are more able to cope with stress if they are supplemented with vitamin E. 400 IU a day is the recommended dose.
	www.napak.com /wallabies.html (3023 words)

	Journal of Vision - Color opponent retinal ganglion cells in the tammar wallaby retina, by (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The peak spectral sensitivities of wallaby cone photoreceptors have been estimated to be 539 nm for the middle wavelength-sensitive cone and 420 nm for the short wavelength-sensitive cone (Hemmi, 1999; Hemmi, Maddess, and Mark, 2000).
		The action spectra of the two wallaby cone types (peak for M cones at 539 nm and for S cones at 420 nm) overlap with the spectra of the three stimulus phosphors, and, therefore, each kernel in Figure 2A represents contributions from both M- and S-cone pathways, albeit at different ratios.
		Unlike wallaby, the commonly found color opponent ganglion cells in primates and cats are S-on/M-off (Cleland and Levick, 1974; Dacey and Lee, 1994; Chichilnisky and Baylor, 1999), although rarely encountered M-on/S-off cells have been described in the lateral geniculate nucleus of monkeys (Valberg, Lee, and Tigwell, 1986).
	www.journalofvision.com /2/9/3/article.html (6279 words)

	Macquarie University News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Griffin chose tammar wallabies because they are almost extinct in their native Australia, thanks mostly to foxes, but they manage to survive on islands, such as Kangaroo Island, and in New Zealand where large predators are absent.
		"Tammars seem to have some innate predisposition to recognise predators, but their response is not sufficient for them to survive if they encountered a fox or cat in the wild," she says.
		The wallabies soon came to associate the fox with the arrival of a human, and would become alarmed at the sight of the fox alone," she says.
	www.pr.mq.edu.au /macnews/sept01/wallabies.htm (1045 words)

	Wally
		Wallaby toenails should not be cut because the blood goes almost to the end.
		The male wallaby's height is approximately 3 to 5 feet.
		Wallabies belong to the macropod family and are a smaller version of kangaroos.
	www.dps61.org /Schools/jh/ZooWeb/Wally/wallaby.htm (394 words)

	Stuffed fox teaches wallabies to fear predators - 23 January 2002 - New Scientist
		Harassing wallabies could be the next big thing in Australia, not as a hobby for mindless thugs, but in order to protecting the species.
		By showing tammar wallabies a stuffed fox and then chasing them with a net, biologists have taught captive-bred tammars to be more afraid of the predators that helped make them extinct across much of mainland Australia.
		Tammars are usually only mildly fearful of foxes and cats, which were introduced by European settlers.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn1830 (329 words)

	Enzymes of galactose metabolism in livers of suckling and adult tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii) and other marsupials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Activities of galactokinase, UDPglucose-hexose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase and UDPglucose 4-epimerase in homogenates of livers of 2 adult and 20 suckling tammar wallabies aged 6 to 50 wk were investigated.
		Activities of the enzymes in suckling tammar wallabies and suckling rats showed no difference in regard to galactokinase and UDPglucose-hexose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase, but UDPglucose 4-epimerase activity in tammar wallabies was approx.
		This may be related to the high galactose content of tammar wallabies' milk compared with rats' milk.
	trophort.com /000/879/000879604.html (182 words)

	San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Kangaroo and Wallaby
		Kangaroos, wallabies, wallaroos, quokkas, pademelons, potoroos, rat-kangaroos, honey possums, and tree kangaroos are all macropods.
		At the San Diego Zoo and the Wild Animal Park the tree kangaroos and wallabies are fed herbivore pellets and leaf eater biscuits, leafy greens such as romaine lettuce, spinach, or kale, browse material such as ficus, hibiscus, or eugenia, and a half of a banana.
		The tammar wallaby reduction effort was halted while the parma wallabies were caught and sent to managed breeding facilities in Australia and around the world in the hope that they would reproduce and could eventually be reintroduced to their native habitat.
	www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/t-kangaroo.html (1695 words)

	Kangaroo Island Seafront>Stylish welcoming accommodation on Kangaroo Island. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Tammar wallabies are found on more than 10 off shore Australian Islands, but the Kangaroo Island Tammar Wallaby is the largest.
		Tammar Wallabies feed on grassy areas with low dense vegetation and can be found a short walk away from the Kangaroo Island Seafront.
		Koalas are mainly active at night and are usually seen resting or feeding in the upper branches of eucalyptus trees during the day.
	www.seafront.com.au /about/wildlife.htm (368 words)

	Purification and Characterization of Relaxin from the Tammar Wallaby (Macropus eugenii): Bioactivity and Expression in ...
		Purification and Characterization of Relaxin from the Tammar Wallaby (Macropus eugenii): Bioactivity and Expression in the Corpus Luteum -- Bathgate et al.
		Purification and Characterization of Relaxin from the Tammar Wallaby (Macropus eugenii): Bioactivity and Expression in the Corpus Luteum
		in the tammar wallaby is not influenced by the conceptus.
	www.biolreprod.org /cgi/content/full/67/1/293 (5553 words)

	Wally B. the Wallaby
		Wallabies are predominantly nocturnal in the wild, but do some foraging, loafing and sunbathing during the day.
		Bennett's Wallabies are grayish brown with red-brown neck and shoulders, and have a pronounced reddish tone to the fur on their shoulders and rump.
		When young, wallaby joeys can be raised in the home, and during the day they can be kept in pouches or bags where they like to sleep.
	www.blue-n-gold.com /halfdan/wally.htm (955 words)

	Effect of gonadectomy, season and the presence of female tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii) on concentrations of ...
		Effect of gonadectomy, season and the presence of female tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii) on concentrations of testosterone, luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone in the plasma of male tammar wallabies
		Concentrations of FSH, LH and testosterone in plasma were measured in groups of adult male tammar wallabies before and after gonadectomy, and during the breeding and non-breeding seasons.
		However, when male wallabies were associated with sexually mature females there were significant three- to fourfold increases in concentrations of LH and testosterone in plasma at the commencement of the breeding season.
	joe.endocrinology-journals.org /cgi/content/abstract/86/1/25 (411 words)

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		Tammar Wallaby or Kangaroo Island Wallaby (Macropus eugenii) - Marsupial Status Tammar Wallabies are common.
		Tammar Wallaby males weigh around 7.5 kgs and females weigh about 5.5 kgs.
		Where they live and habitat These little wallabies like to hide in thick undergrowth during the day and move out into grassy areas to feed at night.
	www.terrace.qld.edu.au /moo/animals/factsheets/TammarWal.txt (108 words)

	Print Article: Tammar Wallabies to be reintroduced to mainland SA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The wallabies were once common on SA's Eyre, Yorke and Fleurieu peninsulas but were driven to extinction by land clearing and introduced predators.
		New Zealanders regard the wallabies, known there as damas, as a pest that destroys native vegetation and in an eradication program, sent the wallabies to Monarto Zoological Park, near Adelaide, earlier this year.
		The wallabies were shipped to Kawau Island in the late 1800s by the then governor of New Zealand Sir George Grey, who went to New Zealand after completing his governorship of SA.
	www.theage.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/12/16/1071336931229.html (362 words)

	High hopes for the brush-tailed variety, too - www.smh.com.au
		In the late 1800s a group of brush-tailed rock wallabies was taken to the island off the east coast north of Auckland by the then governor George Grey.
		The wallabies did not seem to mind the transition, taking to island life with relish, rapidly growing in number and becoming a pest.
		So plentiful had the wallabies become by the 1990s that the NZ Department of Conservation considered eradication because of the effect they were having on native plants and birds.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/11/17/1069027046277.html (1062 words)

	Effects of Fetectomy on Oxytocin Receptors in the Myometrium of the Tammar Wallaby -- Siebel et al. 67 (4): 1242 -- ...
		The up-regulation of mesotocin receptors in the tammar wallaby myometrium is pregnancy-specific and independent of estrogen.
		Oestradiol in follicular fluid and in utero-ovarian venous and peripheral plasma during parturition and postpartum oestrus in the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii).
		Differential expression of mesotocin receptors in the uterus and ovary of the pregnant tammar wallaby
	www.biolreprod.org /cgi/content/full/67/4/1242 (4772 words)

	The Women's Health Site
		The strict reproductive seasonality in the tammar wallaby was maintained once the implant had expired.
		This inhibition of reproduction was associated with a significant reduction in basal LH concentrations and a cessation of oestrous cycles, as evidenced by low progesterone concentrations.
		These results show that long-term inhibition of fertility in the female tammar wallaby is possible using slow-release deslorelin implants.
	www.thewomenshealthsite.org /article_display.jsp?ArticleID=1355 (257 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Tammar
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Tammar" at HighBeam.
		SA: Tammar Wallabies to be reintroduced to mainland SA
		NSW: Wallabies taught to be scared of foxes
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Tammar (146 words)

	New Zealand Nuisance Wallabies Are Australia's Treasure
		The South Australian mainland sub-species of the Tammar Wallaby (Macropus eugenii eugenii) is listed under the Australian government's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 as extinct, unlike its close relative on Kangaroo Island which is not threatened.
		DNA analysis conducted by the Cooperative Research Centre for Conservation and Management of Marsupials at Macquarie University found that the Tammar Wallabies on Kawau Island, New Zealand, are descendents of the extinct Australian sub-species.
		On Kawau Island, the Tammar Wallaby is classified as a Specified Noxious Animal, and the ultimate intention is to eradicate the species.
	ens-newswire.com /ens/sep2003/2003-09-15-03.asp (594 words)

	Biology Bytes May 98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		DNA sampling has established that an introduced colony of tammar wallabies living on Kawau Island, 55 kilometres north-east of Auckland, is almost certainly comprised of the descendants of a wallaby subspecies that vanished from mainland South Australia in the early 1900s.
		Island residents occasionally cull the wallabies and the marsupials are regularly exported to zoos and fauna parks in 15 countries.
		The two other wallaby species residing on Kawau Island, the parma and the brush-tailed rock wallaby, are also potentially valuable conservation resources, as their Australian counterparts have suffered severe population declines in recent years.
	www.bio.mq.edu.au /school/mag/intro/98BYTES/MAY98/Bytes_May98.html (793 words)

	Tammar Wallaby - Perth Zoo - Western Australia
		Description: Tammar Wallabies have a mixed colouring of brown, white, fl and grey.
		Diet: Tammar Wallabies are herbivores and eat grasses and shrubs.
		Wallabies found on the Houtman Abrolhos Islands and Garden Island are able to drink sea water.
	www.perthzoo.wa.gov.au /Animals--Plants/Australia/Australian-Bushwalk/Tammar-Wallaby (189 words)

	Oestradiol-17 beta in the blood during seasonal reactivation of the diapausing blastocyst in a wild population of ...
		Oestradiol-17 beta in the blood during seasonal reactivation of the diapausing blastocyst in a wild population of tammar wallabies -- Flint and Renfree 95 (3): 293 -- Journal of Endocrinology
		Oestradiol-17 beta in the blood during seasonal reactivation of the diapausing blastocyst in a wild population of tammar wallabies
		Oestradiol-17 beta was measured by radioimmunoassay in cardiac blood from 143 pregnant and post-partum tammar wallabies shot in the wild during reactivation of the diapausing blastocyst, embryonic development, birth and post-partum oestrus.
	joe.endocrinology-journals.org /cgi/content/abstract/95/3/293 (344 words)

	Time allocation in tammar wallabies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		We studied the degree to which competition for food inuenced the time tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii) allocate to foraging and vigilance by experimentally manipulating access to food, while holding other factors constant.
		Groups of six wallabies were observed when they had access to either one or six non-depleting bins of supplemental food.
		These results, when combined with other findings, suggest that the moderately social tammar wallaby receives an antipredator benefit by aggregating with conspecics which is not reduced significantly by foraging competition.
	galliform.bhs.mq.edu.au /Tammar_feeding_competition.html (158 words)

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