... hugely among the tendons of a wallaby hind limb. This material property correlates with the varied stresses to which tendons from different anatomical sites are exposed in life. The correlation was demonstrated by subjecting each excised tendon to a load equal to the maximum isometric force that its...

...Xiao Tong Wang; Robert F. Ker ABSTRACT The tail tendons from wallabies ( Macropus rufogriseus ) suffer creep rupture at stresses of 10 MPa or above, whereas their yield stress in a dynamic test is about 144 MPa. At stresses between 20 and 80 MPa, the time-to-rupture decreases exponentially...

...Xiao Tong Wang; Robert F. Ker; R. Mcneill Alexander ABSTRACT Wallaby tail tendons fail after repeated application of stresses much lower than would be needed to break them in a single pull. We show that this is a fatigue phenomenon, distinct from the creep rupture that occurs after prolonged...

...Roger B. Coles; Anna Guppy ABSTRACT The biophysical properties of the external ear of the Tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii (Desmarest), have been investigated using probe microphones implanted in the ear canal. An acoustic axis of the pinna exists above 2kHz which is located close to the horizonal...