Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Tammar wallaby
Tammar wallaby[edit]
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The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 3, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 20:07, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
The tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii), also known as the dama wallaby or darma wallaby, is a small macropod around the size of a rabbit native to South and Western Australia. Though its geographical range has been severely reduced since European colonisation, the tammar remains common within its reduced range and it is listed as of Least Concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). It has been introduced to New Zealand and reintroduced to some areas of Australia where it had been previously eradicated. The tammar has several notable adaptations, including the ability to retain energy while hopping, colour vision and the ability to drink seawater. A nocturnal species, it spends nighttime in grassland habitat and daytime in shrub. It is also very gregarious and has a seasonal, promiscuous mating pattern. A female tammar can nurse a joey in her pouch while keeping an embryo in her uterus. The tammar is a model species for research on marsupials, and on mammals in general. It is one of many organisms to have had its genome sequenced. (Full article...)