Black wallaby

Weight

15 kg

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

15 years – 16.8 years

Diet

Herbivore

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

Not recorded

Gestation

35.9 days

Young per litter or clutch

1.02

Age at maturity

14 months – 15.1 months

Litters or clutches a year

1.4

Active

At night (nocturnal)

Lifestyle

Terrestrial

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

1 countrysrc for Countries on record

The black wallaby is listed for 1 country.

The same countries as a list

1. Australia

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classMammalia
4. orderDiprotodontia
5. familyMacropodidae
6. genusWallabia
7. SpeciesWallabia bicolor (Desmarest, 1804)

Synonyms Kangurus bicolor

Catalogue of Life

VU, Vulnerable

Quokka

Setonix brachyurus

Macropodidae

LC, Least Concern

Eastern grey kangaroo

Macropus giganteus

Macropodidae

S

Sooty kangaroo

Macropus fuliginosus

MacropodidaeNo free photo yet

O

Ornate tree-kangaroo

Dendrolagus goodfellowi

MacropodidaeNo free photo yet

M

Maning

Lagostrophus fasciatus

MacropodidaeNo free photo yet

A

Agile wallaby

Notamacropus agilis

MacropodidaeNo free photo yet

CompareBlack wallaby vs QuokkaBlack wallaby vs Eastern grey kangarooBlack wallaby vs Sooty kangarooBlack wallaby vs Ornate tree-kangaroo

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@misc{black_wallaby_2026,
  title = {Black wallaby (Wallabia bicolor)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/black-wallaby},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}