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More Great Links
- Video of Wallabies from National Geographic
- Gray Kangaroo Video from National Geographic
- Australia's web page on Kangaroos
- New South Wales National Park Service
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- Australia Zoo. "Mammals: Kangaroos vs. Wallabies." Feb. 3, 2006. (Feb. 12, 2008)http://www.australiazoo.com.au/our-animals/animal-diaries/index.php?diary=872
- Fountain, Lesley. "America Zoo: Brush-tailed Wallaby." 2005-2006. (Feb. 13, 2008)http://www.americazoo.com/goto/index/mammals/25.htm
- Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2007. "Marsupial." (Feb. 12, 2008) http://encarta.msn.com
- Myers, P. "Macropodidae." Animal Diversity Web. 2001. (Feb. 13, 2008) http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Macropodidae.html
- National Geographic Kids. "Eastern Gray Kangaroo." 1996-2008. (Feb. 12, 2008)http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/gray-kangaroo.html
- National Geographic Kids. "Wallaby." 2008. (Feb. 12, 2008)http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/wallaby.html
- Thomas, Oldfield. "Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History)." London: Order of the Trustees, 1888.
- Tyndale-Biscoe, Hugh. "Life of Marsupials." Australia: Csiro Publishing, 2005.
- Wilson, Don E. and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed). Johns Hopkins University Press. (Feb. 13, 2008)http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/
