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Dozens of starving and stressed wallabies in Cairns have been caught on tape hurling themselves against a fence.

Council workers installed fencing around wallaby habitat as part of development works in the area and stated it was the state government’s responsibility to relocate the animals.

The Wallaby habitat has been bulldozed for development over the past year, seeing the animals starve and develop extreme stress.

Cairns biologist Martin Cohen said the animals will likely suffer muscle and brain damage unless they are relocated from the developed area to natural bush land.