Fresh Wallaby Juice

*The Author*

The author is an analytical chemist working in a (physical chemistry) lab at a major midwestern university. He’d sort of prefer to remain anonymous, since sometimes he makes comments on real coworkers. Cowardly, perhaps, but there you go. Also, not very effective, since there’s more than enough information scattered around the posts alone to identify him pretty conclusively to anyone who really cares.

Neither the author’s research nor his personal life have ever involved wallabies; the choice of the site name (and resulting pen names) was more or less accidental. Really.

*Real Wallabies*

“Wallaby” is a fairly generic term for any of about 30 species of macropods. (Macropods are marsupials belonging to the family Macropodidae, including kangaroos, wallabies, tree kangaroos, pademelons, and several others.) If it’s not big enough to be a kangaroo, and it’s not called something else already, it’s a wallaby.

The Red-necked Wallaby (chosen more for the name than anything else) is one of the largest wallabies, easily mistaken for a kangaroo; they are distinguished by their black nose and paws, a white stripe on the upper lip, and grizzled medium grey coat with a reddish wash across the shoulders. They can be found in coastal scrub and forest areas throughout coastal and highland eastern Australia, on Tasmania, and (non-natively) in Loch Lomond (Scotland).

Like most macropods, the Red-necked Wallaby is largely solitary, although loose groups (”mobs”) often share common feeding areas. They feed at night and in the late afternoon, generally grazing on grass and herbs near forest shelter.

(Adapted from Wikipedia.)

*The Site*

OrangeWallaby.net is mostly just for fun, and basically consists of the blog Fresh Wallaby Juice (”When a Wallaby is squeezed, thoughts come out”) and a photo gallery. It uses Wordpress 1.5 and Gallery2.

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