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June 16

Identify species in photos in c:Category:Macropodidae at Kangaroo Creek Farm

c:Commons:Village_pump#Animal_identification_requested asks to identify the species of Macropodiae deipcted in those photos. I'm forwarding that request because this reference desk has editors competent in animal identification. – b_jonas 10:10, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

To me, they look like red kangaroos - Osphranter rufus. HiLo48 (talk) 10:41, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Some may be, but most definitely are not. Some of the ones I could identify myself were clearly wallabies! - Jmabel | Talk 15:27, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

They are all apparently taken at Kangaroo Creek Farm. The red ones are kangaroos. The gray and the brown ones are wallabies. They also have an albino wallaby. 97.82.165.112 (talk) 18:47, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. All of that is in the captions I wrote. The problem is that there are 20-odd species of wallaby (for example) and in most cases I don't know which is which. - Jmabel | Talk 16:41, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well, maybe someone at Kangaroo Creek Farm would be willing to look at them and help you? --142.112.221.43 (talk) 18:58, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Their website lists the animals that they have and identify them as Red Kangaroo, Wallaroo, Bennet Wallaby, and Albino Wallaby. 97.82.165.112 (talk) 11:53, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The usual spelling is Bennett's wallaby, so called after Edward Turner Bennett. Note that wallaroo is an umbrella name, and that albino kangaroo is just a descriptive name for a kangaroo that happens to be an albino individual. (Perhaps they also have a cantankerous kangaroo.) --Lambiam 20:08, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Name for this type of cloud?

Is there a name for this type of cloud? Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 20:11, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like cirrostratus undulatus. --Lambiam 20:53, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]