Physical characteristics: Greyish brown back and shoulders, with characteristic white throat and chest. White stripe on upper cheek and dark dorsal stripe ending mid-back. Because of this it is also sometimes known as the white throated wallaby.

By the end of the 1800s the Parma wallaby was believed to be extinct, it was not until 1965 that a small surviving population was found on Kawau Island (near Auckland). Another wild population was found in Gosford, New South Wales in 1967. It is from these few animals that the entire current population of Parma wallabies descends.

Reproduction: The breeding season of the Parma wallaby occurs between February and June. After a pregnancy of around thirty five days, the newborn attaches firmly to one of four teats in the mothers pouch, which it leaves at about thirty weeks, still suckling until approximately 10 months old