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The Yellow-footed Rock-Wallaby, Petrogale xanthopus (Macropodidae)

GR Wilson, J Gerritsen and PL Milthorpe

Australian Wildlife Research 3(1) 73 - 78
Published: 1976

Abstract

In New South Wales P. xanthopus is limited to an area of 70 by 10 km, about 150 km north-east of Broken Hill. The distinctive habitat consists of cliffs, wind-blown caves and angled boulders jumbled together. The temperature and relative humidity differed by 11°C and 21 % between the outside and the inside of one cave. The vegetation is abundant and diverse, and indicates a moisture regime more favourable to the species than is that of the surrounding plain. The conservation of the species is discussed.

https://doi.org/10.1071/WR9760073

© CSIRO 1976

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