30 September 2007 - 26 October 2007
The Life programme team wanted to capture on film an animal that illustrates ultimate agility at height. In terms of agility Australia's 15 species of rock wallaby are unsurpassed. But the most agile of those is the endangered brush-tailed rock wallaby. Who would imagine that an animal that moves largely by hopping on two legs would be so spectacularly agile and fast over vertical cliff faces?
Ted OakesTed grew up on the edge of the Canadian wilderness. His passion is capturing the beauty and fragility of nature on film.
The Life team were in Oxley Wild Rivers National Park in nothern New South Wales, Australia. The national park is a wilderness of dry rainforest with deep gorges and waterfalls. The area's dramatic rock formations provide a refuge for the rock wallabies.
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