This is an educational video for children. Here are some interesting and fun facts about Kangaroos.
• Kangaroos are marsupial animals that are found in Australia
• There are more than 30 million kangaroos currently living in Australia.
• Kangaroos come from a family of animals called macropods, which means ‘large foot’. Their big feet help them with all that leaping around!
• Kangaroos are brilliant jumpers and can leap as high as 3 meters.
• When kangaroos hop, they use both legs at once but kangaroos are also able to walk around on all four legs.
• They have long, strong tails that help them to keep their balance.
• Kangaroos are fast movers, usually traveling at around 20-25 miles per hour. However, when necessary, kangaroos can travel at 40 miles per hour!
• There are four different kangaroo species, the red kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroo, western grey kangaroo and antilopine kangaroo.
• Kangaroos stand between five and six feet tall from their feet to their long, pointed ears. They weigh between 50 and 120 pounds.
• A male kangaroo is called a buck, boomer or jack and a female kangaroo is called a doe, flyer or jill.
• A baby kangaroo is called joey.
• Male kangaroos are taller and heavier than female kangaroos.
• Mother kangaroos have special pouches on the fronts of their bodies for carrying their joeys in.
• Directly after being born, the tiny joey climbs up its mother’s fur to reach her pouch. At this stage the joey is really tiny; just a few centimeters long. The joey then stays in its mother’s pouch for around 8 months until it is old enough to leap around on its own!
• A group of kangaroos is called a ‘mob’, ‘troop’ or ‘court’.
• Kangaroos eat grass, plants, leaves, tree bark, and shrubs. All kangaroos are herbivores, meaning that they eat plants, not meat.
• Kangaroos can’t walk backward.
• A kangaroo’s lifespan is about six years.
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