Red Necked Wallaby

Red Necked Wallaby

(This is a male.)

Red Necked Wallabies live in Australia along the South coast and in the highlands of Eastern Australia.  They live in both coastal shrublands and in forested areas, even up in the mountains.  Their diet includes leaves from shrubs and trees and some grass. 

They have a funny mating ritual.  The female will first lick the male's neck.  Then the male will rub his cheek up against the female.  Then the female and male will stand on their back legs and fight like two males.  Then they will finally  mate.  It sounds like they are necking.   Maybe that's how they get the red necks!

Red Necked Wallabies, like all Wallabies, are smaller than kangaroos.  The Red Necked Wallaby is distinguished by a reddish brown neck and black hands.  The males are larger than the females and the males can weigh up to 41 lbs or about 19 kg.  The males can grow to be 35 inches or 90 cm long.  This is about a yard and a little less than a meter.

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