Wallabies have been captured on video footage hurling themselves at a chain-link fence due to stress and starvation.

The confronting video shows the animals violently throwing themselves at the fence in Cairns, North Queensland, as a woman passes the enclosure with her two dogs.

Cairns Regional Council installed the fence due to ongoing maintenance and development in the area, yet they say that it is the responsibility of the State Government to relocate the animals.

The animals have been left in the enclosure for almost a year as their land was bulldozed.

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The horrific video shows wallabies hurling themselves at the chain-link fence after being kept in an enclosure in Cairns for nearly a year (pictured)

President of the Australian Society for Kangaroos, Nikki Sutterby, told the ABC that due to their lack of habitat, they've been left to starve.

'Hundreds of wallabies were trapped inside the fenced AFL park and many of those kangaroos died trying to escape, smashing themselves up against fences,' she said.

'They're extremely stressed, they're at risk of myopathy and this is to do with the fact their land has been given full commission to be bulldozed for development.'

Locals who have volunteered to care for the animals claim 80 wallabies have died in just two weeks.

Biologist Martin Cohen said that extreme stress may be causing the unusual and confronting behaviour.

'Down the track, in the next few weeks, they'll get things like muscle damage and brain damage,' he said.

Locals who have volunteered to care for the animals claim 80 wallabies have died in just two weeks

Biologist Martin Cohen said that extreme stress may be causing the unusual and confronting behaviour

Although they may be underfed, RSPCA worker Michael Beatty said that stress caused by the passing dogs may have triggered the behaviour.

The animals could easily become stressed due to barking dogs or screaming children.

Mr Beatty suggests that it may be a good idea for council officers to patrol the area and fine those who walk with their pets off the lead, as young people might find it funny to purposely scare the macropods.

Cairns Regional Council has said that they don't have the authority to relocate the animals or take action on population management, but did provide support to the volunteers.

CEO of the council, John Andrejic, said the council monitors suburban areas, yet fines for people walking their dogs caught off-leash are a last resort.