Parma wallaby
Amazing fact
Parma wallabies use their tails like a leg for support when moving slowly.
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Parma wallabies use their tails like a leg for support when moving slowly.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Parma wallaby
- Scientific name
- Macropus parma
- Japanese name
- パルマワラビー
- Group
- Land mammals
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Diprotodontia
- Family
- Macropodidae
- Genus
- Macropus
A fairly small member of the kangaroo family, it lives in damp, shrubby woodland in eastern Australia.
Its tail is about as long as its body. It has a white throat and chest and a white stripe on its cheeks.
It usually goes about alone, resting in thickets during the day and becoming active in the evening.
How the Parma wallaby lives
They mainly eat reedy grasses. Soon after birth, the young enter their mother’s belly pouch. As they grow, they start poking their heads out of the pouch and later come all the way out.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web多摩動物公園Basic data
- Size
- Head and body length: 45–53 cm多摩動物公園
- Weight
- males 4–5.9 kg, females 3.2–4.8 kg多摩動物公園
- Lifespan
- 6–8 years in the wild, 11–15 years in captivityUniversity of Michigan Animal Diversity Web
- Active
- At night (nocturnal)University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web
- Diet
- Grass and leaves多摩動物公園
- Range
- Australia: New South Wales多摩動物公園
Where the Parma wallaby has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- パルマワラビー
- 简体中文
- 帕尔马沙袋鼠
- 繁體中文
- 帕爾馬沙袋鼠
- 한국어
- 팔마왈라비
- Español
- Ualabí parma
- Français
- Wallaby de Parma
- Deutsch
- Parmawallaby
- Italiano
- Wallaby parma
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Parma wallaby
- Русский
- Белогрудый филандер
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 多摩動物公園 — パルマワラビーChecked: 2026-11-03
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Macropus parmaChecked: 2026-11-03
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
Report a mistakeWhen you meet the Parma wallaby, look for this
- Look for the dark stripe on the gray-brown back.
Animals do different things from day to day, so you may not always see this.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity WebEXHIBIT INFORMATION
Places that keep or show the Parma wallaby
Zoos, aquariums and other places whose official websites say they keep or show this animal.
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Displays can change with the animals’ health and the seasons. Check each facility’s official website before you go.
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