Swamp Wallaby at Burrinjuck, NSW
Identification history
| Wallabia bicolor | 10 May 2025 | DonFletcher | ||
| Macropodidae (family) | 9 May 2025 | MartinPredavec | ||
| Wallabia bicolor | 9 May 2025 | CarbonAI | ||
| Macropodidae (family) | 9 May 2025 | Bidge |
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wild dog attack?
1 comment
DonFletcher
wrote:
10 May 2025
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.
Location information
- Coordinates 148.534957-34.991377
- Altitude 311.0m
- Places Burrinjuck, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 9 May 2025 04:52 PM Recorded on
- Bidge Recorded by
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Bidge NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Wallabia bicolor Kangaroos & Wallabies Mammals
Species information
- Wallabia bicolor Scientific name
- Swamp Wallaby Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1338.8m Recorded at altitude
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