Pheasants and wallabies don't usually fraternise with one another. But Argus Camera Club photographer Lorna Cort captured an incredible snap of a pheasant sharing a bucket of food with a wallaby at Leonardslee Gardens in Horsham. Wallabies are members of the kangaroo clan found primarily in Australia and on nearby islands.
All wallabies are marsupials or pouched mammals. Wallaby young are born tiny, helpless, and undeveloped. They immediately crawl into their mothers' pouches where they continue to develop after birth—usually for a couple of months.
Young wallabies, like their larger kangaroo cousins, are called joeys. Even after a joey leaves the pouch, it often returns to jump in when danger approaches. The Leonardslee wallabies were introduced by naturalist Sir Edmund Loder in 1889 and are believed to be Bennett's Wallabies from Tasmania, Australia.
They are winter-hardy, with a thick coat perfect for keeping them warm during the cold English winter..
