Tasmanian Pademelon

Tasmanian Pademelon

Taxobox
name = Tasmanian PademelonMSW3 Groves|pages=69]
status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006 | assessors = Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group | year = 1996 | id = 40571 | title = Thylogale billardierii| downloaded = 12 May 2006]


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Marsupialia
familia = Macropodidae
genus = "Thylogale"
species = "T. billardierii"
binomial = "Thylogale billardierii"
binomial_authority = (Desmarest, 1822)

The Tasmanian Pademelon ("Thylogale billardierii"), also known as the Rufous-bellied Pademelon or Red-bellied Pademelon, is the sole endemic species of pademelon found in Tasmania. Due to Tasmania's cooler climate, this pademelon has developed a more full and bushy fur than its northern relatives, who inhabit mainland Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Males reach around 12 kg (26.5 lbs) in weight, 1 - 1.2 metres in height, and are considerably larger than the females, who average 3.9 kg (8.6 lbs).

Habitat

Pademelons are solitary and nocturnal, spending the daylight hours in thick vegetation. Rainforest, sclerophyll forest, and scrubland are preferred, although wet gullies in dry open eucalypt forest are also used. Such places, next to open areas where feeding can occur, are especially favoured. After dusk, the animals move onto open areas to feed, but rarely stray more than 100 metres from the forest edge.

The species is abundant and widespread throughout Tasmania.

Diet

The Tasmanian Pademelon is a nocturnal herbivore feeding on a wide variety of plants, from herbs, green shoots and grass, to some nectar-bearing flowers.cite book|first=Peter|last=Menkhorst|year=2001|title=A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia|publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=134]

Once a part of the diet of the Thylacine, the Tasmanian Pademelon is still preyed upon by other predators of the island, including the Tasmanian Devil, pythons and quolls. Even so, they are abundant to the point of being culled occasionally (along with other wallabies) to reduce competition for grass with the farmed animals. Hunting of the Tasmanian Pademelon is allowed, its pelt having some economic value and its meat being palatable.

Breeding

There is no specific breeding season, though 70% of pademelon births seem to occur around the beginning of winter. Gestation for the female is 30 days. The young are in the pouch for about 6 months thereafter, and are weaned at around 8 months. Joeys are sexually mature at 14 - 15 months. Pademelons live between 5 to 6 years in the wild. [ [http://www.australianfauna.com/tasmanianpademelon.php AustralianFauna.com] article on the Tasmainian Pademelon]

External links

* [http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/wildlife/mammals/padem.html Park and Wildlife Service Tasmania: Tasmanian Pademelon]

References


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