Using strategically placed camera - traps , conservationist in Australia have found sign of monocled hare wallaby — a species that has n’t been seen in the area for the preceding 10 yr .
Prior to the recent discovery , the last spectacled hare wallaby ( Lagorchestes conspicillatus ) to be seen at Roebuck Plains was a unmarried road vote down 10 years ago .
credit entry : Yawuru PBC / WWF - Aus .
The wallaby is named from the distinctive orange pelt that hem in each eye . There used to be a comparatively respectable population before 2004 , but fox and cat depredation has likely hastened the species ’ declination , as has changing fire regimes and drought . Foxes only reach Roebuck Plains in the last tenner .
At nighttime , the marsupial come out to graze on light , tender plants , but during the daylight , for avoid the sun and to conceal themselves , they hide in long grass where it ’s cooler . By doing so , they leave belief called stern .
late , Country Managers in Yawuru set up eight tv camera - maw near brush kangaroo seats and scats in potential habitats near the road killing internet site . They left the camera running for two month , as well as oatmeal and groundnut butter to pull in the creature .
Remarkably , the cameras snapped photos of at least two specimens of the wallaby — definitive proof that they still subsist .
The WWF in Australia is currently run to protect wallabies and other raw species in the area .
[ ViaScience connection Western Australia ]
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