* Photo by Henricus Peters at Lone Pine Sanctuary
Here are some facts you might not know about kangaroo…
- Kangaroo joeys are the size of a jellybean
* Photo by Henricus Peters at Lone Pine Sanctuary
- They can’t move backwards. “Kangaroos can not walk backward. Kangaroos hopping motion is called Saltation. They hop off their feet and use their tail to balance. That combined with muscular legs make it easy for them to move forward effectively but those appendages stop them from going in reverse.”
- There are 60 species of kangaroo. …
- A few of them climbs trees. So… How are tree kangaroos related to the kangaroos on the ground? Tree kangaroos and the kangaroos we associate with Australia both fall under the umbrella of Macropods—the family plant-eating marsupials that includes kangaroos and wallabies.
- They can hop 8 metres (25 feet) in a single bound. …
- Female kangaroos can pause their pregnancies. …
- Their tail is used as a fifth limb.
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The term ‘kangaroo’ comes from the Aboriginal word “gangarru”, from the Guugu Yimithirr language, which is spoken in far north Queensland. It’s not a scientific name and is used to describe a range of animals, some of which may be only distantly related to the big kangaroos we are most familiar with.
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