A wallaby that rests in thickets by day and feeds on grasses at night.
Its grey-brown body has a white throat and chest, with a dark stripe from the head to the middle of the back.
Parma Wallaby breeding was recorded through much of the year in forest studied several years after wildfire. In the New England Tablelands of northern New South Wales, remote cameras operated at 17 sites for 17 months. Images of females with full pouches and young near their mothers provided evidence of 45 breeding events. Estimated birth months covered every month except August; spring accounted for 38% and winter 11%.
The study took place three to four years after a wildfire, and the observed breeding frequency was similar to published captive records. Long-running cameras can reveal seasonal breeding patterns in a cryptic wallaby that is difficult to observe directly.
IUCN Red List · Vulnerable (VU) · Global species-level assessment
The official IUCN Red List 2025-1 category-change table records the Parma Wallaby’s global assessment changing from Near Threatened (NT) to Vulnerable (VU).