tammar

Other mammals found in this ecoregion include tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii), which were widely distributed in this ecoregion prior to European settlement, but remain offshore on Garden Island.

Swan Coastal Plain scrub and woodlands 2007

In Western Australia the tammar wallaby lives among bushes of Gastrolobium bilobum, a fire-dependent, nitrogen-fixing legume that allows the growth of grasses, which are rare in the southwestern forested regions.

Swan Coastal Plain scrub and woodlands 2007

Some of the smaller islands held only a single macropod species, the tammar or the rock wallaby.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

They referred to their study animals with informal Aussie names, some of which sound as fantastic as creatures from Tolkien: quokka, tammar, euro, boodie.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

They referred to their study animals with informal Aussie names, some of which sound as fantastic as creatures from Tolkien: quokka, tammar, euro, boodie.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Still, their results for the tammar, the euro, and the red kangaroo all fell within a narrow range.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Still, their results for the tammar, the euro, and the red kangaroo all fell within a narrow range.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Some of the smaller islands held only a single macropod species, the tammar or the rock wallaby.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Professor Marilyn Renfree of the University of Melbourne, a lead researcher on the project, said: "The tammar wallaby sequencing project has provided us with many possibilities for understanding how marsupials are different from us."

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The researchers also studied the way tammar wallaby genes are turned "on" or "off" at different stages of the animal's life cycle and in different parts of the body.

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