A grass-eating wallaby with large ears and a long tail.
It has a small head, large ears and a long tail with a thick base. Its enlarged hind legs are adapted for leaping.
Where Tammar Wallabies spend time changes over the day. In a study tracking animals reintroduced to Kalbarri National Park in Western Australia, they used long-undisturbed vegetation with dense canopy during dawn and dusk. During the main feeding period, they used a landscape combining patches burned about a year earlier with areas more than ten years since disturbance.
Resting cover and feeding places therefore involved different conditions within the same landscape. The study recorded animals shifting among vegetation structures and burn ages as their activity changed. It describes reintroduced wallabies at one site, not the full habitat use of the species across its range.
IUCN Red List · Least Concern (LC) · Global species-level assessment
The 2016 global IUCN assessment lists the Tammar Wallaby as Least Concern (LC). At Kalbarri National Park, 16 of 25 collared animals died 11–319 days after release; 10 of those deaths were caused by predation. This was the outcome of one local reintroduction.