A
kangaroo is an animal found only in Australia, although it has a smaller
relative, called a wallaby, whichlives on the Australian island of Tasmania
and also in New Guinea.
Kangaroos
eat grass and plants. They have short front legs, but very long, and very
strong back legs and a tail. These are used for sitting up and for jumping.
Kangaroos have been known to make forward jumps of over eight metres, and leap
across fences more than three metres high. They can also run at speeds of over
45 kilometres per hour.
The
largest kangaroos are the Great Grey Kangaroo and the Red Kangaroo. Adult grow
to a length of 1.60 metres and weigh over 90 kilos.
Kangaroos
are marsupials. This means that the female kangaroo has an external pouch on
the front of her body. A baby kangaroo is very tiny when it is born, and it
crawls at once into this pouch where it spends its first five months of life
No comments:
Post a Comment