| review of surrogacy program for endangered victorian brush-tailed rock wallaby (petrogale penicillata) with special reference to animal husbandry and veterinary considerations. | a surrogacy program to increase the reproductive rate of the critically endangered victorian brush-tailed rock wallaby (petrogale penicillata), initially developed in semicaptive conditions, was established in close captivity at adelaide zoological gardens in 1998. pouch young were removed from their mothers on days 8-20 or 40-45 after parturition and placed onto the teat of a tammar wallaby (macropus eugenii) or yellow-footed rock wallaby (petrogale xanthopus xanthopus) surrogate mother. during ... | 2006 | 17312809 |