Pademelons in Wilsons Promontory National Park

In 2008 I had an article published in The Victorian Naturalist that explored the question: Are kangaroos indigenous to Wilsons Promontory National Park? (Whelan 2008). Nearly all available evidence led to the conclusion that they were not but there was one record that indicated kangaroos were present in the early part of the 19th century. This record was an article in the Medical Journal of Australia (Bird 1926) that recounted a walking expedition undertaken by Fred Bird in 1879. In his account of the expedition, Bird remarked on the presence of kangaroos around the Yanakie Homestead near the current park entrance.