Kangaroo

Kangaroo

The Kangaroo is an animal that lives in Australia and Ny-Guinea. The name was invented by James Cook and Joseph Banks in 1770. The animal belongs to the marsupial, Mammal and the amniotes family. It is over 47 different sorts of them. Six sorts is already extinct. The rat kangaroo is an animal that looks like them, but they are like a family of their own. An other breed is the red giant kangaroo. They live in dry inland prairies. The male can reach a height up to two meters.

The tree kangaroo climbs in trees. They have long legs and arms unlike the other kangaroos and can climb in trees.

The kangaroos are born before they are completely developed. The babies lies in their mother’s bag. They stay there for nine months before they leave the bag, but they still get milk until they are eighteen months old. The kangaroo can’t move if you lift up it’s tail. Without the tail they won’t be able to jump. This has to do with the balance.

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