Kangaroos & Wallabies

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DonFletcher wrote:

Yesterday

Hi @Bidge, you can diagnose a dingo kill by skinning the carcass to expose bruising from bite marks. Failure to remove the skin is likely to lead to mistaken verdicts about cause of death. I am used to kangaroos rather than a wallaby, so the following needs adaptation to this species. I found large male kangaroos had extensive damage to the rump, and lower back. Sub adults typically had a single bite to the upper back which typically broke some ribs. The broken ribs usually punctured the lungs or major blood vessels so the chest cavity was full of blood. Eagles also kill macropods. In that case there is talon damage around the head and puncturing of the cranium.

Wallabia bicolor

CarbonAI wrote:

6 May 2025

It's a pleasure doing this job @AaronClausen. If you disagree with any of my suggestions, please help me improve by verifying the correct species.

Macropus giganteus

AaronClausen wrote:

6 May 2025

@CarbonAI you have had a shocker on this one.

Macropus giganteus

RoyP wrote:

6 May 2025

I wish to disagree with Carbon AI’s ID for a couple of main reasons the Eastern Grey Kangaroo has from pictures I have seen, have black front ‘hand’ not white and the picture clearly shows 3 white fingers as opposed to the EGK has 4 or 5 fingers. To reinforce my belief; in the INaturalist data sheet on Northern Brown Bandicoot there are a number of pics showing front hand with 3 fingers.
Kind regards. Roy

Macropus giganteus

DonFletcher wrote:

6 May 2025

Many thanks @WalterEgo, that makes a huge difference. I am sure those are from an Eastern Grey Kangaroo. I have collected hundreds of thousands of them so I am reasonably familiar with them. Wombat droppings are larger and more cubic in shape. And often wombat droppings have less of the dark crust on the outside, i.e. more similar inside and outside. Breaking one of them open was a good idea because something that sets the droppings of those two species apart, and Red Necked Wallabies, is that their droppings are composed exclusively of finely chewed grass. The dung of Black (Swamp) Wallabies, and Feral Pigs contain coarser fragments.

Macropus giganteus