We have both brown and albino Wallabies at the farm. Called Sheila, Bruce, Rolf, Harris, Edna and Foster they all live together and are pretty good escapologists. Last year one escaped from the farm park and was pursued at speed down the main road into Blackpool by a fleet of police cars. They did not manage to apprehend the escapee and Bruce turned up the next morning in a garden in nearby Cleveleys. They live in harmony with Sophia the Rhea (who thinks she is a wallaby).

A wallaby is any of about thirty species of macropod  (Family Macropodidae). It is an informal designation generally used for any macropod that is smaller than a kangaroo  or wallaroo  that has not been given some other name.

Very small forest-dwelling wallabies are known as pademelons and dorcopsises. The name wallaby comes from the Eora Aboriginal tribe who were the original inhabitants of the Sydney area. Young wallabies are known as "joeys", like many other marsupials.

Wallabies are widely distributed across Australia, particularly in more remote, heavily timbered, or rugged areas, less so on the great semi-arid plains that are better suited to the larger, leaner, and more fleet-footed kangaroos. They were introduced in New Zealand, where they are seen as a pest and are often hunted. There are also a few populations of wallabies in the British Isles, the largest of which can be found on the Isle of Man where there is a breeding colony of around 100. Recently Wallabies have also been found on the Island of Oahu.

Wallabies are not a distinct biological group. Nevertheless they fall into several broad categories. Typical wallabies of the Macropus  genus, like the Agile Wallaby (Macropus agilis), and the Red-necked Wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus) are most closely related to the kangaroos and wallaroos and, size aside, look very similar. These are the ones most frequently seen, particularly in the southern states.