Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby - Petrogale penicillata

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I'm With A Vengeance back with a vengeance to write about brush-tailed rock wallabies with a vengeance. Apparently, some guy scratched this wallaby's car, and it responded by strangling the vandal's family with a broom. I don't really know the logistics or ergonomics of how he achieved it - it's just what I heard. The moral of the story is, Jarrod Harker, you ran away from me in Grade 7 during lunch and now I'm using this as a public forum to shame you. Now that that's in order, let's wind down from these cyber revenge-killings (always need a wind-down post those), with some refreshing facts about animals. We'll start alphabetically, with the brush-tailed rock wallaby.

In 1788, at the arrival of Europeans, the Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby was widespread and abundant. Its had an encyclopaedically wide taste in rocky habitats, enjoying the classics of wet and dry sclerophyll (Eucalyptus) forest, edgy underground taste in the form of rainforest, and even the highway-driving staples of dry woodland. But, because Europeans are white, they made things worse. As someone who has a genetic defect where my tear glands are only large enough to keep my eyes wet but never successfully form tears (or emotions actually), I have to take Van Dyck and Strahan's (2008) word for it that their contraction in range and numbers is a sad event.

Brush-tailed rock wallabies tend to make their den sites northerly facing. This allows them to keep their gaze northward, so that they don't turn around and fall off the earth. Simultaneously, it allows the sunlight of the early morning and late evening to hit them at both times, allowing them to bask, again, without falling off the earth.

Habitat with plentiful ledges, caves and crevices, allowing multitudinous escape routes and daytimes rest areas, are preferred by the species. So if you have terrible skin, it might be the perfect habitat for a brush-tailed rock wallaby.