made by the courting male, similar sounds are made when a mother is calling her young. The security of their family structure, as well as their speed and agility in closed rainforest protects them against most feral animal attacks. When the animal is resting, it sits on the base of its tail whilst placing the rest of it between the hind legs. The animal then leans back against a rock or sapling. As it falls asleep, its head leans forward to rest on the tail or on the ground beside it. The main predators of Thylogale stigmatica are dingoes, tiger quolls, amethystine pythons, and occasionally feral domestic dogs. The rate of predation increases following a forest fire, when there is less forest cover. They detect predators by spreading out when foraging. Each pademelon can watch for predators on its particular area. If a predator is seen, a warning to others in the area is spread by a thumping sound made by the hind legs. References External links Chambers Wildlife Rainforest Lodges on Red-legged Pademelon NSW Threatened Species https://web.archive.org/web/20061229155238/http://www.rainforest-australia.com/pademelon.htm http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/animals/kangaroosandwallabies.htm http://www.worldanimalfoundation.net/f/Kangaroo.pdf Macropods Marsupials of New Guinea Marsupials of Australia Mammals of Papua New Guinea Mammals of Western New Guinea Mammals of New South Wales Mammals of Queensland Least concern biota of Oceania Mammals described in 1860 Taxa named by John Gould