Toolache or Grey's wallaby |
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Title : | Toolache or Grey's wallaby |
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Creator : | Gould, John, 1804-1881 | ||
Source : | The mammals of Australia, vol. 2, plate 19 | ||
Place Of Creation : | London | ||
Publisher : | The Author | ||
Date of creation : | 1863 | ||
Format : | Book | ||
Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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Description : |
Grey's Wallaby was named after the explorer and South Australian Governor, Sir George Grey but it became known as the Toolache Wallaby. Its scientific name was originally Halmaturus greyi but is now Macropus greyi. It was once abundant in south-east South Australia but competition with grazing livestock and hunting for sport and for its attractive skin, led to its extinction. According to Christopher Dickman in A fragile balance : the extraordinary story of Australian marsupials p. 228 the last wild individual was recorded in 1927, taken into captivity, and died in 1939. |
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Coverage year : | 1844 |
Region : | South East |
Further reading : | Robinson, AC and MC Young. The toolache wallaby (Macropus greyi Waterhouse), Adelaide: National Parks and Wildlife Service, Dept. of Environment and Planning, South Australia, 1983 Kangaroos, wallabies and rat-kangaroos, edited by Gordon Grigg, Peter Jarman and Ian Hume Chipping Norton, N.S.W.: Surrey Beatty & Sons, 1989 Dickman, C. R. A fragile balance : the extraordinary story of Australian marsupials, Chicago, Illinois. : University of Chicago Press, 2007 |
Internet links : | The mammals of Australia by John Gould : digitised by the National Library |