As you who follow me know, the place where I'm living is surrounded by forest. The weather was nice and sunny here today, so this afternoon I went for a long walk in my "backyard".
I took a different route than I usually do. And on my way back, in the backyard of neighbors at some 200 meters distance from my house, I came accross this little fellow.
A wallaby!
A wallaby is a small- or mid-sized macropod native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in New Zealand, UK and other countries. They belong to the same taxonomic family as kangaroos and sometimes the same genus, but kangaroos are specifically categorised into the six largest species of the family. The term wallaby is an informal designation generally used for any macropod that is smaller than a kangaroo or wallaroo that has not been designated otherwise.
(source: wikipedia.org)
I wasn't expecting this and the animal stood stock-still so at first sight I thought it was a statue.
But after I approached the fence a bit, it started skipping.
A bit later I saw 2 more, but they were too far away (and moving all the time) to take a good picture.
'Down Under': closer than I thought ...
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GREAT WEEKEND TO ALL OF YOU!
