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Rock wallabies: nature's free runners

by Ted Oakes for Australia's outback fortresses, 15 October 2007

When wildlife programme maker Ted Oakes went to the Australian outback to film wallabies, he found one species highly adapted to hopping around the steep rocky outcrops where they live.

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Rock wallabies: nature's free runners

Ted Oakes was amazed to see wallabies high on the cliff sides.

The brush-tailed rock wallaby (petrogale penicillata) is classified as a near threatened species.

Chadden Hunter came across some more acrobatic jumpers living in the tree tops of the Amazon. Watch their aerial trapeze act in uakari: leap of faith.

Published 26 October 2009

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Ted grew up on the edge of the Canadian wilderness. His passion is capturing the beauty and fragility of nature on film.

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