Kangaroo Facts
Kangaroo Facts
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1. Most of Kangaroos are found in Australia or island of New Guinea and kangaroo means big foot.2. Kangaroos are extraordinary animal that they don’t have to walk or run, instead of doing these they hop.
3. Kangaroos are like human beings. They like to take care of their babies until they grow enough to let them be free.
4. Kangaroos keep them in their stomach called a pouch.
5. They are the only large mammal that can hop.
6. Male kangaroos are called bucks. (A male is a boy.)
7. A familiar site in Australia and on neighboring islands, kangaroo is the common name for around 54 species of marsupials that make up the family Macropodidae. Most large kangaroos have gentle sheep-like faces and large ears. Their bodies are pear-shaped with slender chests and heavy hind legs with tendons that provide spring-like action.
8. Ordinarily timid, kangaroos can be dangerous when cornered and will punch their antagonists with their forearms, while slashing with sharp claws on the toes on the farthest side of their feet. This behavior earned them a reputation as formidable opponents for humans in organized boxing matches.
9. A body in motion tends to stay in motion, which is where the kangaroo's long, muscular rail comes into play. It helps the animal keep its balance during those big jumps, and also provides support when sitting or walking.
10. There are 60 different species of Kangaroos, for example:Big Kangaroos,
Nailtail & Rock Wallabies,
Hare Wallabies,
Tree Kangaroos
Rat Kangaroos.
11. Big Kangaroos are actually male kangaroos, and females are blue and gray.
12. Male red kangaroos can weigh up to 190 lbs.(86 kg) and they can grow to 8 ft.(2.4m) from nose to tail-tip, and a male gray can be almost as big.
13. These kangaroos can leap over 30 feet. (9m), and one bound can reach around 35 miles per hour (56 km/h).
14. Like other female marsupials, the female kangaroo has a special abdominal pouch that shelters the newborn, commonly called a joey. The baby finds its way into the pouch by following a path of fur that has been moistened by its mother's tongue. the joey stays in its mother's pouch for 5-9 months (depending on the species.) Inside, four mammary glands nourish the newborn. Two are functional at all times. Although joeys permanently leave the pouch by the age of 6-10 months, they continue to nurse until 12-18 months of age by placing their heads in their mothers' pouches.
15. They can put there pregnancy on hold if it is too hot or too cold.
16. A newborn kangaroo is even more helpless than a human infant. A joey is blind and the size of a honeybee at birth. Usually the newborn is alone; twins are extremely rare.
17. Tree Kangaroos eat leaves, fruit, plants, nuts, bark, grass, flowers, ferns, bird, bird eggs.
18. Kangaroos like to eat grass and other green plants. Kangaroos like grassy areas so they can spend their time hopping on the grass. They are called Herbivores because they eat only grass and green plants.
19. They can live up to 18 years!!
20. They were discovered in 1788 when the first fleet of English men arrived in Sydney.
21. THUMP IF YOU NEED ME
Most kangaroos make few noises--even when they are hungry, excited or distressed. They do sometimes emit low grunts, and coughs can be signals of submission between males. Red kangaroos "click," while female grey kangaroos "cluck" to summon their young. When a kangaroo senses danger, it alerts its cohorts by thumping its feet on the ground.
22. BODY LANGUAGE
Think of a roo's swift, double-footed kick as a phrase in kangaroo body language. Behavioral scientists who study the creatures say the kick is one element in a vocabulary of visual glances, avoidance hops, hisses,jabs, punches, gentle touches and grooming.
23. They live in dry scrublands, and open grasslands. Kangaroos need very little water. They can survive without water for months. Kangaroos get their water from rivers, creeks, and billabongs.
24. Kangaroos are very big so that only a few animals try to hunt healthy adult kangaroos. Young kangaroos have more enemies. Packs of dingoes watch for joeys that are away and alone. Wedge tail eagles are also predators.
25. Male kangaroos are called bucks. Females are called does. Babies are called joeys.
26. Kangaroos are very good swimmers but they only choose to swim when chased or if they have no other choice.
27. They have very good hearing, eyesight and sense of smell.
28. The mother kangaroo can control the muscles that control the size of her pouch and the size of the opening.
29. She can pull the pouch tight against the body. By tightening her muscles, she can hold her baby safe in her pocket. That is why when the mother kangaroos jumps, her babies (joeys) stay in her pouch.
30. If the mother kangaroo wants to clean her pouch and wants the joey out, she can also relax the opening allowing the joey to fall out.
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