Wallaby de Bennett

The Wallaby de Bennett or wallaby with red neck or wallaby of the bushes ( Macropus rufogriseus ; in English: the red-necked wallaby ) is a Macropodidé of average cuts, common in the moderate and fertile part of the East of the Australia. It is one of largest wallabies and sometimes one confuses it with a Kangourou. Its name commemorates the doctor and British zoologist Edward Turner Bennett (1797-1836).

Description

It weighs between 15 and 20 kg and can reach 90 cm in height. It is characterized by the black of its nose and the end of its legs, the white band of its lower lip, its dress grisonnante with red reflections on the shoulders.

Origin: Australia.
Food: it digests the Cellulose like the ruminants (tender hay, various vegetables, Carotte S, foliages).
Gestation: one month and a week approximately, the small one continues to develop in the Marsupium.
Various: the mother carries out a cleaning of the marsupium before the low setting, the Embryon, still blind and deaf, destroyed its envelope, leaves, climbs by snaking on the belly along a track traced by the mother. As soon as in the pocket it catches an udder and starts to be nursed. There remain approximately 5 months with the shelter in this pocket.

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