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    Kangaroo: This Article Is About The Living Animal. For The Kangaroo As A Food, See - For Other Meanings, See

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    The document summarizes key facts about kangaroos. It states that kangaroos are large marsupials endemic to Australia, with the largest species being red kangaroos, eastern grey kangaroos, and western grey kangaroos. Kangaroos, wallaroos, and wallabies are distinguished by size, with kangaroos being the largest and wallabies the smallest. Kangaroos have large hind legs and feet for leaping, a long tail for balance, and a small head. Female kangaroos have a pouch called a marsupium where joeys complete development.

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    Kangaroo

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    This article is about the living animal. For the kangaroo as a food, see Kangaroo meat. For other
    meanings, see Kangaroo (disambiguation).

    Kangaroo
    Temporal range: Early Miocene -

    Present

    Female Eastern grey kangaroo with

    joey (baby) in pouch

    Conservation status

    Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

    Scientific classification

    Kingdom Animalia
    :
    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Mammalia

    Infraclas Marsupialia
    s:

    Order: Diprotodontia

    Family: Macropodidae

    Genus: Macropus

    Subgenu Macropus and Osphra


    s: nter

    Species

    4 species, see text.

    The kangaroo 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: the red kangaroo, antilopine kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroo,
    and western grey kangaroo.[1] Kangaroos are endemic to Australia. The Australian government
    estimates that 34.3 million kangaroos lived within the commercial harvest areas of Australia in
    2011, up from 25.1 million one year earlier.[2]
    As with the terms "wallaroo" and "wallaby", "kangaroo" refers to a polyphyletic grouping of
    species. All three refer to members of the same taxonomic family, Macropodidae, and are
    distinguished according to size. The largest species in the family are called "kangaroos" and the
    smallest are generally called "wallabies". The term "wallaroos" refers to species of an
    intermediate size.[3] There is also the tree-kangaroo, another genus of macropod, which inhabits
    the tropical rainforests of New Guinea, far northeastern Queensland and some of the islands in
    the region. A general idea of the relative size of these informal terms could be:

    wallabies: head and body length of 45105 cm and tail length of 3375 cm; The dwarf
    wallaby (the smallest member) length is 46 cm and weigh of 1.6 kg;

    tree-kangaroos: from Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo body and head length of 4865 cm, tail
    of 6074 cm, weigh of 7.2 kg (16 lb) for males and 5.9 kg (13 lb) for females; to the grizzled
    tree-kangaroo length of 7590 cm (30 to 35 in) and weight of 815 kg (1833 lb);

    wallaroos: the black wallaroo, the smallest by far, with a tail length of 6070 cm and
    weight of 1922 kg for males and 13 kg for females;

    kangaroos: a large male can be 2 m (6 ft 7 in) tall and weigh 90 kg (200 lb).
    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

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