Some animals’ tongues are much longer than most humans imagine!
In the late afternoon & early evening of 17 May 2025 many Bennett’s wallabies were grazing the grassy grounds of Mountain Seas Lodge.
They are a mostly-solitary species – a marked contrast to the highly-sociable ‘roos that have brightened so many of my days, across seven decades.
These Bennett’s wallabies were large in number, but definitely not a “herd”, nor an “extended family”.
The pictured individuals, like most of their fellows, were “solo diners”.
The sward was “punctuated” by a prodigious number of neat, small, firm turds; the majority were wallabies’, but wombats also delivered a substantial number.
(generally, the wombats waited until well after sunset before sauntering out of the bush, onto the grass)
Until March 2025 I had assumed that South Australia’s Kangaroo Island was probably the global hotspot for roadkill.
I now know that Flinders Island is a more credible contender for this regrettable “championship”; its amount of roadkill beggars belief.
Bennett’s wallaby is the clear leader, species-wise, with wombats probably #2 on a sad list, dominated by marsupials.
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