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    Kangaroo: From Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

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    Kangaroos are large marsupial mammals found in Australia and New Guinea. They have powerful hind legs and large feet adapted for leaping. Female kangaroos have a pouch called a marsupium where joeys complete development. Larger kangaroos have adapted well to changes in Australia's landscape brought by humans, though some smaller species are endangered. Kangaroos are an unofficial symbol of Australia appearing on currency and used by organizations, and are important to Australian culture and identity.

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    Kangaroos are large marsupial mammals found in Australia and New Guinea. They have powerful hind legs and large feet adapted for leaping. Female kangaroos have a pouch called a marsupium where joeys complete development. Larger kangaroos have adapted well to changes in Australia's landscape brought by humans, though some smaller species are endangered. Kangaroos are an unofficial symbol of Australia appearing on currency and used by organizations, and are important to Australian culture and identity.

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    Kangaroos are large marsupial mammals found in Australia and New Guinea. They have powerful hind legs and large feet adapted for leaping. Female kangaroos have a pouch called a marsupium where joeys complete development. Larger kangaroos have adapted well to changes in Australia's landscape brought by humans, though some smaller species are endangered. Kangaroos are an unofficial symbol of Australia appearing on currency and used by organizations, and are important to Australian culture and identity.

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    Kangaroo: From Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

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    Kangaroo

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    The kangaroo /kru/ is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning 'large foot'). In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, especially those of the genus Macropus, red kangaroo, antilopine kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroo and western grey kangaroo.[1] Kangaroos are endemic to Australia. The smaller macropods are found in Australia and New Guinea. Kangaroos have large, powerful hind legs, large feet adapted for leaping, a long muscular tail for balance, and a small head. Like most marsupials, female kangaroos have a pouch called a marsupium in which joeys complete postnatal development. Larger kangaroos have adapted much better[which?] to changes brought to the Australian landscape by humans and though many of their smaller cousins are endangered, they are plentiful. They are not farmed to any extent, but wild kangaroos are shot for meat, leather hides, and to protect grazing land for sheep

    and cattle.[2] Although there is some controversy, harvesting kangaroo meat has many environmental and health benefits over traditional meats.[3] The kangaroo is an unofficial symbol of Australia, and appears as an emblem on the Australian coat of arms,[4] on some of its currency,[5] and is used by some of Australia's well known organisations, including Qantas[6] and the Royal Australian Air Force.[7] The kangaroo is important to both Australian culture and the national image, and consequently there are numerous popular culture references. physical description Kangaroo has two powerful hind legs, large feet, designed to jump. Normal kangaroo jumps with speed of 20-25 km / hr. But how fast they can jump up to 70 km / h. Hope kangaroo live around 9-18 years. Although there is sometimes a kangaroo that could survive up to 28 years. Kangaroo is known to have a front leg muscles (biceps) are strong, and now has been known that the other muscles used for fighting, are also used to attract females. [2]

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