Which wallabies can we watch bouncing around Canberra ... | 台北市立動物園資訊網

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A swamp wallaby on Black Mountain. Photos: Supplied.

If you’re a football tragic you’re probably mourning because the closest you’re going to come to watching Wallabies at the moment would be replays of the far-off golden days of Australian rugby.

However, and this may be scant comfort to you, there are wallabies bouncing in and around Canberra even as we speak. Two species in fact.

Just to get one common misconception out of the way, there is no meaningful difference between a ‘kangaroo’ and a ‘wallaby’. They just come from different Indigenous languages, and we have opted loosely to use kangaroo for bigger members of the family and wallaby for smaller ones.

However, even locally some male wallabies are bigger than some female eastern grey kangaroos. To further underline the randomness of the usage, red-necked wallabies are...