Black-gloved Wallaby
Notamacropus irma
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 168
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The western brush wallaby (Notamacropus irma), also known as the black-gloved wallaby, is a species of wallaby found in the southwestern coastal region of Western Australia. The wallaby's main threat is predation by the introduced red fox (Vulpes vulpes). The IUCN lists the western brush wallaby as Least Concern, as it remains fairly widespread and the population is believed to be stable or increasing, as a result of red fox control programs. The western brush wallaby has a grey colour with distinctive white colouring around the face, arms and legs (although it does have black gloves as its alternative common name implies). It is an unusually diurnal macropod that eats mainly grass.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Western brush wallaby”.