Also known as the Rufous Rat-kangaroo.  While it is solitary it may feed with others.  Sleeps during the day in a nest lined with soft, dry grass at the base of a grass tussock.  Carries nest material with its prehensile tail.

Grasses, roots and tubers, which are dug up with the forelimbs.

One young is born at anytime of the year.  The young vacates the pouch when it is around sixteen weeks old, but remains with the mother for another seven weeks.