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🦘Red-necked wallaby
The red-necked wallaby or Bennett's wallaby is a medium-sized macropod marsupial (wallaby), common in the more temperate and fertile parts of eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Red-necked wallabies have been introduced to several other countries, including New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Isle of Man, France and Germany.
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The IUCN Red List has not assessed Macropus rufogriseus yet.
- Body mass
- 17 kg
- Body length
- 1.05 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 19 years
Everything we know about the Red-necked wallaby
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass17 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 16 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length1.05 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass37 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan19 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 15 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length5.93 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity1.3 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation30 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 29 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range0.12 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density26 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l17 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Red-necked wallaby yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderDiprotodontia
- ›familyMacropodidae
- ›genusMacropus
- ›speciesMacropus rufogriseus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- orderKangaroos, koalas & possums · Diprotodontia
- familyMacropodidae
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- orderKangaroos, koalas & possums · Diprotodontia
- familyMacropodidae
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