The Pademelon is brownish grey and looks like a kangaroo. The male is 95 centimetres long, the female is about 77 centimetres long. Its neck and shoulders are reddish brown. Its hands are shaped so it can hold its food.
It eats grass and low shrubs.
It lives in thick rainforest
and eucalypt forest near grasslands, in Queensland and NSW.
Wild dogs and foxes sometimes attack Pademelons.
As it hops along it holds its tail straight. Each night it travels the same way to its feeding grounds. When frightened it makes noises and thumps the ground. To warm itself in the morning it finds a sunny spot.
