they're pademelons. Were they labelled as agile wallabies? When I was there last they were labelled as red-legged pademelons but I think they are actually dusky pademelons. http://www.zoochat.com/654/pademelons-352035/
Right, pademelons make more sense. I didn't record a sign and was going off the photos in the gallery. I think these animals were too big to be red-legged pademelons though, so dusky would be reasonable.
yeah they don't really look anything like red-legged pademelons, and dusky pademelons seem quite common in southeast Asian zoos so that's what I figured they had to be.
there is actually another enclosure at the zoo labelled as being for agile wallabies, but although the scientific name on the sign is for the agile wallaby the photos and distribution map are for red-necked wallabies. I didn't see any animals in the enclosure so I'm not sure which species they were (I'm guessing red-necked wallabies).
The pademelons are specifically labelled as being red-legged pademelons Thylogale stigmatica but I'm positive they aren't.
Yeah, the sign for Agile Wallabies appears to show Red-necked Wallaby in photos and scientific name, but there was no map for them on my visit. The animal I photographed in that exhibit appears to be another dusky pademelon...
maybe there wasn't a map. In my review I wrote "I didn't see the wallabies: the sign called them agile wallabies, but had photos and distribution of red-necked wallabies". I don't think I took a photo of the sign (I'd have to search through my photos and I can't be bothered) so it might have been in the text rather than a map (or maybe I accidentally put "distribution" when I really meant "scientific name").
In any case, the animal in your photo above actually is an agile wallaby so at least they got the common name correct for that one.
maybe there wasn't a map. In my review I wrote "I didn't see the wallabies: the sign called them agile wallabies, but had photos and distribution of red-necked wallabies". I don't think I took a photo of the sign (I'd have to search through my photos and I can't be bothered) so it might have been in the text rather than a map (or maybe I accidentally put "distribution" when I really meant "scientific name").
In any case, the animal in your photo above actually is an agile wallaby so at least they got the common name correct for that one.
