small wallabies?

Question

Looking for the smallest wallabies

We are looking for a Wallaby call the Nabarlek or Quokka. Can you find the answer.

Can anyone send me pictures of a nabarlek or Quokka.
Thank you

I would like some pictures of Nabarlek and Quokka. I have not been able to find any.

Answer 1

Tammars are the smallest of the wallaby family, weighing in at only 5 kg to 7 kg (11 lbs to 15 lbs). They have a dark grey-brown coat above, a pale buff grey coat beneath, with reddish arms, feet and flanks. Most individuals also display a faint white cheek stripe.
Tammar Wallabies share a mode of lifestyle common to many of the smaller wallaby species. During the day they shelter among dense shrubby vegetation, to hide from predators (eg Wedge-tailed Eagles), and venture out into open grassy areas at night to feed. Across most of their current and former range, the wallabies inhabited dense coastal heaths and mallee thickets. Although each wallaby has a defined home range, these ranges overlap with those of other wallabies and aggressive encounters are few.

Tammar Wallabies can live to 14 years of age, though this is a rare occurrence in the wild. The wallabies have an unusual breeding pattern with most young being born on virtually the same day. Their fertilized eggs lay dormant, inside the mother (embryonic diapause), until the summer solstice, when foetal development resumes and all young are born approximately 40 days later, in late January or early February.


Addendum:
Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia, is called the "stone country" and is the area where you can find the Narbarlek wallaby. The rugged gorges and escarpments of this ecoregion provides refuge for plants and animals found nowhere else in Australia, let alone the world. Short-eared rock wallabies remain on rocky outcrops, while the Narbarlek, or little rock wallaby, occassionally wanders into the plains.
The Narbarlek is considered a threatened species, it's a very small (cat sized: 1500 gm) rock-wallaby, most likely to be confused with the more common short eared rock-wallaby, P. Brachyotis. For more information go to the website I have listed here. It has a picture and gives a description of where it can be found and some ecology info.
http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/wildlife/threatened/pdf/nabarlek_nt.pdf

The Quokka is a small marsupial like the forest wallabies and tree kangaroo's of eastern Australia. Very active at night, the Quokka sleep (often in small groups) during the day in the shelter of dense vegetation. They can be found on Rottnest Island off Perth Western Australia, the current population on the island is estimated to be 10,000. For more info on these I have listed a website here.
http://australian-animals.net/quokka.htm

There are many other classifications of wallabies and they all vary in size and where they are located. You would have to look up each species by name and check their sizes to find out if there are any smaller than the ones that you have mentioned. The wikipedia gives a list of some of them at the website below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallaby

For other sources about small wallabies check out the two websites below.

Answer 2

Of the typical wallabies, the Parma wallaby is the smallest with the Tammar wallaby next. Parma wallaby males are 4.1 to 5.9kg. Tammar wallabies have a much larger size range with the Kangaroo island Tammars weighing 6-10kg. Some populations are a lot smaller.

The rock wallabies are much smaller with the smallest being the Warabi of NW Western Australia weighing 0.96 - 1.43kg. The Warabi is a recent discovery, before that the Nabarlek was the smallest of the rock wallabies. The hare-wallabies are slightly bigger than this while the nailtail wallabies are about the same size as the Parmas and Tammars