All are from South Australia I think, it was only a couple of years ago when they took them from the wild to breed.
Rare rock wallabies returned to outback Rare rock wallabies returned to outback - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-29/community-pitches-in-to-save-endangered-wallabies/2816812 [video]http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/statelinesouthaustralia/video/201107/r806881_7167784.flv[/video]
The project seems to be going well then, and the video was quite interesting, and rather informative for a breakfast programme. I do have two questions though: -What was with the disclaimer at the very start of the video, is it culturally offensive to show videos of deceased Aboriginal people? -When they transplant the joeys into the surrogate mothers pouches, do the mothers have to have a joey removed first (ie did they already have to have young), or not? I don't know if milk production would start immediately in marsupials, but I wouldn't have thought so. And if a yellow-footed joey is removed, what happens to it - euthanasia?
In some (most?) Aboriginal cultures it is forbidden to mention the name or view an image of a person within a set period of their death. So this is a warning in case an aboriginal person is watching. and they think that somebody recently deceased is in the video. Yes a joey is removed. Yes
