Albino Bennett’s Wallaby
Our niece just turned two, so in celebration we went to a wildlife park/petting zoo last Saturday.
We saw everything from guinea pigs (and held one) to llamas in the domestic animal/petting zoo side of things, and everythng from Blue-tongued Skinks to Wombats in the natives area.
Outside of the two or three small averies, most birds in the park were free flying, and apparently happy to hang out for the regular feedings.
Corellas are distinguished from Cockatoos by the flesh around their eyes.
Hi keres.
Great pictures. I haven’t been to any kind of zoo since my daughters were small. Next time I go to the big city, I might go to one.
How’re you doing?
Hi FM. I’m doing well. A bit tired, but that’s always the case.
I’ve got the usual three or more projects that I’m juggling, so it’s mostly a matter of doing whatever jumps to the front of the list on any given day. Today’s has to be structured around a trip to Hobart in the afternoon.
How large a city is Hobart? I think I remember reading it was the second largest city.
Hobart is the largest city in Tasmania. If you include the suburbs, about half of the state’s population (just under half a million people) lives there. It’s only a 30-40 minute drive, but we’re considered to be living out in the boonies by most Hobartians.
These live in the hundreds, is not the thousands, in the Derwent estuary, but I can never get close enough to them in the wild to get a good picture. They have white flight feathers and are especially spectacular looking on the wing.
I should mention that most marsupials store fat in their tails and that these are obviously well-fed wallabies.
This little critter evolved to eat carcasses, bones and all, in record time. The name “devil” comes from the horrific sounds they make when a group of them is fighting over a carcass.
Looks like a good eater… 🙂
Most of the parks feed them at certain times so that you can watch them eat. The big trick seem to be the handlers keeping their fingers.
Being opportunistic eaters, they can eat about a third of their weight in a single feeding.
Wow. How big are they?
Here’s the Wikipedia link.
Males average around 18 pounds and females around 15 pounds. I’ve never seen one gorge, as the parks like to keep them active, and not lying in a lump digesting for several days.
Most parks feed them road-kill or farm bred wallabies (skin, bones and all), to keep their diet as natural as possible
of exotic fauna needed to be counterbalanced with the ordinary: dogs enjoying muck.
I love Giddy (don’t tell Luna).
I’m sure Luna knows that you have enough love to go round.
Actually, Luna is a bit possessive. Just ask Imogen. When Imogen and I are sitting on the ground together, Luna likes to push in between us and “claim” me. Although she’s getting better about sharing as she gets older.
I had one dog like that but since she was only about 30 pounds, it didn’t work too well.
Yeah, a ninety pound dog is a bit harder to resist.
Btw, I meant to ask, who looks after the pack when you are away?
Luna stays at a local kennel (puppy camp) whenever we need to travel. She’d get lonely otherwise. Tearing around with other dogs also has the advantage of our getting her back totally dog-tired when we get home, usually tired from our trip.
Sometimes we have housesitters but mostly we have a petsitter who comes to the house twice a day to feed the dogs and pay attention to them. The dogs stay outside all the time when we’re gone. This is probably the last time for Hopeful though — he’s having too much trouble getting around so I think we’ll have to kennel him next time.
…of the most possessive Lab in the world. (Her master is now paraplegic and she guards him like a litter of puppies.) But this morning she buried all my golf balls in my tomato patch (and we no longer have tomato plants) so she’s been displaced.)
Sorry about the tomatoes. Our garden is ringed by a chicken wire fence which is ringed again by an electric fence, or we wouldn’t have any tomatoes either.
Where’d you photograph the sealions?
Galapagos Islands…a little tame, eh?
I did wonder about their seeming indifference.
About 25 yards behind, looking forlorn?
Wherever Hopeful is, he is looking forlorn. But he was on neat, clean dry land — he doesn’t like being in either water or muck.
Fastidious as well as forlorn. 🙂
unlike his owner (?) who is fatuous and flaky.
We were pretty much the last people to leave, so Imogen’s brother got a short snuggle with this little guy as he was being put to bed for the night.
cute overload overload
Actual size (when enlarged).
Also actual size.
Looks like the Rogaine is working!
Yes it does, but I sure wouldn’t want to be the person applying it. :O
lestat, one (the most mischevious one) of my cockatiels.
Lestat looks as if, when the mood strikes him, he enjoys the occassional finger.
I think I’ve been bitten more often by cockatiels than by any other type of bird.