Red Kangaroo

Kangaroos are the most famous representatives of a primitive mammalian group called Marsupials. They live only in Australia and New Guinea. They are unmistakeable when mowing because of their distinct way of locomotion – hopping. Ease with which they jump is not only ilusion because it is a very efficient way of locomotion, more efficient than running for example. The reason is that kangaroos are able to store some energy when ending the jump and use it for the next leap. The largest species of kangaroos can jump up to 9 metres! All kangaroos, like almost all marsupials, carry their young in a pouch located on female´s belly. Newly born baby is very small, maximally 2 cm long and must climb unaided up the female´s belly into the pouch where it starts sucking from a nipple and continue growing. When it is too big to be inside the pouch it still returns to its mother to suck milk. All kangaroos eat plants and can be found in different types of habitats like dry plains, dense rainforests even in mountain meadows that are covered in winter by snow.