The RED-NECKED WALLABY

SNUBBY

Snubby the Red-necked Wallaby lives in the forest of Secret Gully. She comes down to the valley floor in the late afternoon to eat the grass and tasty shrubs and flowers. She feels safer hidden away amongst the trees and rocks.

The Red-necked wallaby is usually just a little under a metre tall and the back of their neck is a reddish brown which contrasts with their generally grayish colour. They usually keep to themselves but sometimes there are quite a few feeding together. However when disturbed they do not act as a unit but run off in any direction.

Sometimes you see the female with a large joey who stays close. We have also seen the females hide their joey in the long grass and just let them come out occasionally for milk.

Snubby is now a very old wallaby. She has had many joeys over the years. Sometimes we have seen her lying back on her tail with her pouch hanging open. She looked like she was cleaning her pouch but she may have been giving birth to a tiny little joey, who would slowly climb up into her pouch and fasten itself onto a nipple.

In the picture above you can see that Snubby's pouch is quite full. So there must be a bigger joey asleep in there. When the joeys are big enough to look out of the pouch they look very cute, especially when they try to eat some grass just like their mother.

Snubby got her name because she has a cute snubby little nose.