Rufous hare-wallaby - Wikipedia
The rufous hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus), also known as the mala, is a small macropod found in Australia. It was formerly widely distributed across the western half of the continent, but naturally occurring populations are now confined to Bernier Island and Dorre Island Islands off Western Australia. [4]
Mala (Rufous Hare-wallaby) - Australian Wildlife Conservancy
2024年10月8日 · The Mala Rufous Hare-Wallaby is an endangered species of wallaby found in Western Australia. Learn about this small marsupial, & how you can help them.
ADW: Lagorchestes hirsutus: INFORMATION
Common names for Lagorchestes hirsutus include rufous hare-wallaby, mala, western hare-wallaby, and spinifex rat. Prior to the 1930’s this was one of the most abundant and wide spread macropodids in Australia.
Rufous Hare-Wallaby - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on
The Rufous hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus) is a small macropod from Australia. It was once widespread in the central and western deserts but a number of threats, caused the last wild population of this species on mainland Australia to go extinct in the early 1990s.
Swift survivors: the elusive and resilient hare-wallabies
2024年9月17日 · Two of the remaining species – the Rufous Hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus), and Banded Hare-wallaby (Lagostrophus fasciatus) – have contracted from formerly widespread distributions to islands free of introduced predators (foxes and feral cats).
Mala (rufous hare-wallaby) | Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
Mala (rufous hare-wallaby) This small wallaby used to be one of the most abundant macropods in the Northern Territory but is now extinct in the wild. Mala live in patches of spinifex and feed in nearby areas. They have a varied diet, primarily surviving …
Rufous Hare-Wallaby - Shark Bay
The rufous hare-wallaby is best known as the mala in Western Australia. These hare-wallabies have long, soft greyish-brown fur tinged with red. Females are larger than males. They were once among the most abundant and widespread macropods in central Australia.
Rufous Hare-Wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus) National Recovery …
The rufous hare-wallaby or mala was formerly distributed across Australia within the spinifex deserts of the Northern Territory and north-west South Australia and is now extinct in the wild on the mainland.
Mala (rufous hare-wallaby) - DNA Zoo
2021年7月9日 · An important ancestral figure in the mythology of the Warlpiri people, the last wild mala (rufous hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes hirsutus) population in central Australia went extinct in the early 1990s, succumbing to the impacts of destructive wildfires …
Endangered Mala released into biggest feral predator-free area on ...
2019年7月18日 · AWC has released 30 Mala (Rufous Hare-wallaby) into the sprawling 9,400 hectare feral predator-free area at Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary, marking the beginning of an ambitious rewilding program which is set to secure a significant increase in the populations of at least 10 nationally-threatened mammals.