1 Swamp Wallaby at Acton, ACT
Identification history
| Wallabia bicolor | 30 Jun 2025 | DonFletcher | ||
| Wallabia bicolor | 30 Jun 2025 | CarbonAI | ||
| Unverified | 30 Jun 2025 | TimL |
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User's notes
The wallaby was sighted adjacent to ANBG's Red Centre. It appeared to have an open wound or tumorous area on its right limb which it kept licking, as seen in the second image. Closer inspection of the images appears to show the right limb swollen and with deformed claws. The wallaby was feeding whilst we watched but it and kept licking the wound. The situation was reported to ANBG's Visitor Centre Rangers. Hopefully the animal can be caught and treated. (See follow-up sighting 4682672).
5 comments
DonFletcher
wrote:
30 Jun 2025
The wallaby looks healthy. It is remarkable how well macropods can cope with injuries, even ones to their hind limbs.
There seems to be a lot going on with that right front limb, including healed injuries and unhealed or new assaults. The bone structure is severely compromised. If the animal was capture-darted, or caught some other way, then taken to a vet, I guess the result would be an amputation, then placement with a wildlife carer for a few months.
There seems to be a lot going on with that right front limb, including healed injuries and unhealed or new assaults. The bone structure is severely compromised. If the animal was capture-darted, or caught some other way, then taken to a vet, I guess the result would be an amputation, then placement with a wildlife carer for a few months.
RangerGregor
wrote:
30 Jun 2025
Hi Tim, We've been keeping a close eye on said wallaby. We've reached out for an expert opinion. Thanks for alerting us as always.
DonFletcher
wrote:
30 Jun 2025
Good response, "keeping a close eye on", @RangerGregor . Are many visitors noticing and reporting it?
HelenCross
wrote:
7 Jul 2025
A Swamp Wallaby with a similar wound in the Dandenongs: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DnpAA6DZ1/
Location information
- Coordinates 149.107542-35.274698
- Altitude 619.7m
- Maps ANBG
- Places Acton, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 29 Jun 2025 02:41 PM Recorded on
- TimL Recorded by
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TimL 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
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- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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