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KANGAROOS ARE THE MOST FAMOUS ANIMAL OF AUSTRALIA || LIVING EARTH

Australia's most famous marsupial is, of course, a kangaroo. This animal is the official symbol of the Green continent, and its image is everywhere: on the state emblem, coins, and commercial products... In Australia, in their homeland, kangaroos can be found near settlements, in farmland and even on the outskirts of cities.
By the way, the emergence of the name "kangaroo", too, is still not clear. There is a version that the first travelers, who are in Australia when I saw the Bouncing monster, and asked the local: what's his name? To which one of them replied in his own language, "I do not understand", and it sounded just "kangaroo", and since that word and stuck to them as their name.


An animal kangaroo is a marsupial mammal. There are about seventy varieties of kangaroos, from very tiny 500 grams, and up to giants weighing 90 kg. the Main habitat of kangaroos is represented by the territory of Australia and Tasmania, New Guinea and the Bismarck archipelago.


Have kangaroo court a long a massive tail, thin neck, and narrow shoulders. Hind limbs are very well developed. When the animal rests or moves slowly, its mass is distributed on long narrow feet, which creates the effect of stop walking. And forequarters of a kangaroo, unlike a back, very small, agile and something reminiscent of a human hand. The brush is short and wide, with the five fingers. Animals covered by dense coat - 2-3 see Painting ranges from light-gray, through many various shades sandy-brown, and even black color of.

Kangaroos are the only representatives of large animals that move by jumping. The usual speed of movement of the red Kangaroo is 20-25 km/h. but the maximum speed at short distances can reach up to 55 km/h.


Take kangaroo food only once a day. This happens just after sunset. It is safer for them to act in this way. And the more it is advisable, as by this time in the tropical regions just the heat is waning.

Kangaroo is a harmless animal and prefers a menu of vegetable treats. A larger species feed on tough barbed grass. Those who are naturally short snout, usually prefer to include in your diet bulbs, tubers and roots of a variety of flora.

However, in dry periods, the acute need for water still begins to affect, and in such unfavorable times, large kangaroos are saved by digging wells. They are quite deep, and can go underground to a depth of 100 meters.

The breeding season as such, no kangaroos. They can mate all year round. But the processes of reproductive action nature endowed animals fully. The female organism is, in fact, a producer of offspring, put on a wide stream, as a factory for the production of cubs.
Males and then arrange the marriage matches and whoever comes out on top doesn't waste any time. The period of gestation is very short – only 40 days and one, rarely two cubs, up to 2 centimeters in size, are born.
The amazing thing is that the offspring are actually underdeveloped embryo, but the instinct allows you to find your own way into the pouch of the mother.
Reaching the warm mother's bag, the baby spends the first two months of life there.


Due to the special structure of the body, the animal is able to successfully defend the powerful blows of the hind legs, as well as move quickly, using as a rudder long tail. For marsupials characteristic is the attachment strictly to a certain territory, so they prefer not to leave it for no reason. Exception represent huge? uaeea kangaroos, which enough easily surmount tens of kilometers in search of more profitable fodder sites. Representatives of all types of kangaroos have good hearing, and are able to catch even too quiet sounds. Kangaroos are characterized by resourcefulness, so they are able to adapt very well to many adverse external conditions, including the lack of food familiar to them. The lifespan of kangaroos averages to 15 years. but although there are cases when the animal lived 25-30 years and by the standards of the kangaroo became a survivor.