Tag: wildlife

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”.

Come late afternoon on 17 March 2025, we were comfortably ensconced in an upstairs room.

Ever-growing numbers of wallabies were emerging from the wooded, lower slopes of the “roof” of Flinders Island, in order to graze the immediate surrounds of Mountain Seas Lodge.

20 minutes after the wedgetail “fly-by” (see #5 in this series), I enjoyed a much more intimate, ground-level, animal encounter.

Pictured is Notamacropus rufogriseus – a species which is particularly abundant in Tasmania, but is also common through much of eastern Australia’s coastal scrub and sclerophyll forests.

In Tasmania it is generally known as “Bennett’s wallaby”; in mainland Australia the more common name is “red-necked wallaby”; some humans regard the Tasmanians and the mainlanders as two distinct subspecies.

Doubtless, some would say the same of the two relevant human populations!