Parma wallaby | 台北市立動物園資訊網

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Species of marsupial

The parma wallaby (Notamacropus parma)[2] is a small, hopping, kangaroo-like mammal native to forests of southeastern Australia. About the size of a stout cat, it lives in dense shrub and is only active at night to feed on grasses and small plants. It is the smallest of the wallabies (short, kangaroo-like animals of the genus Notamacropus) and carries its young in a pouch like other marsupials. Shy and elusive, it was believed extinct until rediscovery in the 1960s. It is threatened by habitat loss and is easily killed by non-native foxes.[1]

The parma wallaby was first described by British naturalist John Gould in about 1840. Its epithet parma (Waterhouse 1846) comes after a word from a New South Wales Aboriginal language...