Beta
Tasmanian Pademelon
Tasmanian Pademelon
Paddy's
Thylogale billardierii
Macropods
Pademelons are a smaller type of wallaby, with a small head and small snout, a long tail and a stocky body.
Males can be up to 1,2 metres tall while females are usually 50 - 70 cm.
Their small paws, brown and red fur and small rounded ears.
Young pademelons live in the mother's pouch for about seven months.
They like woodland areas with grass and shaded areas, rainforest, sclerophyll forest, and scrubland.
They eat grass, leaves, barks and shoots.
Padamelons usually breed in Autumn but they can breed at any time of the year. Only one joey is born.
They were once abundant all over Australia but went extinct on the mainland in the 1800s.
Protected
Habitat loss, domestic dogs and cats, feral cats and road kill.
Harsh rasping
All over Tasmania, usually more commonly in the bush.
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