A wallaby with a brush-tipped tail that shelters among rocks.
It has a dull brown back, a reddish rump and black furry feet. A conspicuous brush grows near the tail tip.
At one Queensland property, brush-tailed rock-wallabies used different parts of the day in different habitats. Camera records from three Aroona Station sites in 2016 and 2017 showed dawn-and-dusk activity in a rainforest gully, but mainly nighttime activity on two exposed ridges. Dingoes at those ridges were more active around dawn and dusk, so their activity overlapped less with the wallabies’.
The gully and ridges differed in vegetation cover and the exposure of their rocky terrain. The authors suggested that these habitat differences and the perceived risk of encountering dingoes may shape activity timing. Their study compared camera records from three sites on one property. It documented different daily rhythms in habitats where terrain, vegetation and predator activity varied together.
Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act) · Vulnerable · Australia (national statutory listing)
The brush-tailed rock-wallaby is listed as Vulnerable under Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act. The Australian Government reports that its range has contracted substantially and that the species now occurs mainly in isolated rocky areas along the Great Dividing Range. Key pressures include fox predation, habitat fragmentation, severe fires and competition from introduced herbivores such as goats. Government priorities include keeping colonies connected, protecting rocky habitat and managing these pressures. This is an Australian national legal listing and management summary, not a global IUCN assessment.