GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist, birder and freelance science and nature writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning a BS in Microbiology (emphasis in Virology) and PhD in Zoology (Ornithology) from the University of Washington. In NYC, she was the Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History for two years, pursuing part of her "dream" research project by reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist has written a blog about science since 4 August 2004 (the early years are archived 
Red-necked wallaby, Macropus rufogriseus frutica.
The photographer writes; Apparently wallabies are very, very cool with people. There was a paved path with gates at either end which wound through an area that had wallabies merrily hopping from one end to the other, casual as you please, munching on grass and jumping like little kangaroos.
Image: grendelkhan.
As long as you send images to me (and I hope it will be for forever), I shall continue to share them with my readership. My purpose for posting these images is to remind all of us of the grandeur of the natural world and that there is a world out there that is populated by millions of unique species. We are a part of this world whether we like it or not: we have a choice to either preserve these species or to destroy them in search of short-term monetary gains. But if we decide to destroy these other life forms, the least we can do is to know what we are destroying by learning that they exist. If you have a high-resolution digitized nature image (I prefer JPG format) that you'd like to share with your fellow readers, feel free to email it to me, along with information about the image and how you'd like it to be credited.
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Comments
Not all wallabies are always cool with people. Of course, sometimes some of them have reason not to be...
Posted by: Mike Dunford | February 20, 2007 1:20 AM
I think this species is resident in the UK. We sent them our criminals, in return they sent us their wildlife. And Rolf Harris.
Bob
Posted by: Bob O'H | February 20, 2007 1:26 AM
Actually, I believe that the species that is resident in the UK is Petrogale penicillata (the brush-tailed rock wallaby). I came across to a few references to it being resident in the UK as the result of zoo escapes when I was researching a population of that species on Oahu.
Posted by: Mike Dunford | February 20, 2007 4:54 PM