KANGAROO

 

Classification:

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Diprotodontia
Family:	Macropodidae
Genus:	Macropus

Kangaroo is a marsupial mamal from Australia. This means that the female kangaroo has an external pouch on the front of her body. A baby kangaroo is very tiny when it is born, and it crawls at once into this pouch where it spends its first five months of life.

Kangaroos are herbivores. They eat grasses, flowers, leaves, ferns, moss and even insects. Like cows, kangaroos regurgitate their food and re-chew it before it is ready to be totally digested. 

Kangaroo has two powerful hind legs, large paw designed to jump. Kangaroo usually hops with the speed of 20-25 km/h. But they can jump up to 70 km/h. Kangaroo life expectancy of about 9-18 years. Although sometimes there are kangaroos that can survive up to 28 years. Kangaroo is known to have a strong front leg muscle (biceps), and now it is known that muscle is not only used for fighting, is also used to attract females.

The largest kangaroos are the Great Grey Kangaroo and the Red Kangaroo. Adults grow to a length of 1.60 metres and weight over 90 kilos. In all species, females are smaller than males. Male red kangaroos have a maroon-colored coat and female red kangaroos are bluish-gray.All red kangaroos have a white stripe on each side of their faces. The western gray and eastern gray kangaroo both have silver hair, but the latter’s coat is longer and lighter in color.

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