Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby

About

Once common along the entire Great Dividing Range, the brush-tailed rock-wallaby has declined seriously in the south and west of its range and now survives as scattered, often small colonies among rocky escarpments and cliff lines from south-east Queensland to Victoria.

How to spot it

Look for a stocky wallaby with shaggy rufous or grey-brown fur and a long, brush-like tail exceeding its body length, seen basking on rock ledges or cliff faces at dawn and dusk near caves and boulder piles rather than in open grassland. A great conservation-education example: the Grampians and Snowy River colonies are among the last known in Victoria, both actively monitored.

Found in

• Grampians (Gariwerd) National Park
• Snowy River National Park