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Brush-tailed rock-wallaby
species of mammal / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The brush-tailed rock-wallaby or small-eared rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata) is a kind of wallaby. It is one of several rock-wallabies in the genus Petrogale. It lives in the rocks and cliffs of the Australia's Great Dividing Range from about 100 km (62 mi) north-west of Brisbane to the Grampians in south west Victoria. Its habitats include rainforest and dry sclerophyl forests. Numbers of brush-tailed rock-wallabies have gone down in the south and west of its range. It remains locally common in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland.[3] In Victoria the species is nearly extinct with only four in the Grampians National Park, and 20 in East Gippsland.[4][5] In 1988 at Jenolan caves in New South Wales, about 80 wallabies were released into the forest, but by 1992 there were only seven left.[4]
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Genus: | Petrogale |
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Petrogale penicillata (Gray, 1827) | |