Pademelon Mouse Mat

This unique mousepad features a close up photo of a very cute pademelon in Tasmania, Australia. Brighten up your desk / workspace in your home or office and make your working day so much more fun and easier to get through. Also a great gift idea. Personalise it with your own name or text, or delete the text if you just want to enjoy the beautiful image. Pademelons are small marsupials of the genus Thylogale. They are some of the smallest members of the family Macropodidae. Their name is derived from the word badimaliyan, from the Dharuk Aboriginal language of Port Jackson (the Sydney region). Pademelons are usually found in forests. Pademelons, wallabies, and kangaroos are very alike in body structure, and the three names refer to the three different size groups. Besides their smaller size, pademelons can be distinguished from wallabies by their shorter, thicker, and sparsely haired tails. Like wallabies, they ambulate by hopping. The Tasmanian pademelon (Thylogale billardierii), also known as the rufous-bellied pademelon or red-bellied pademelon, is the sole species of pademelon found in Tasmania, and was formerly found throughout south-eastern Australia. This pademelon has developed heavier and bushier fur than its northern relatives, who inhabit northern Australia and Papua New Guinea. Males reach around 7 kg (15.4 lbs) in weight, 1–1.2 metres in length including the tail, and are considerably larger than the females, which average 4 kg (8.8 lbs).