Facts about this animal
The red kangaroo is the largest living marsupial in the world. The males can stand over 2 m tall and weigh up to 90 kg. Females are less than half the size and weigh 20-40 kg. Red kangaroos continue to grow throughout most of their life.
The dominant fur colour among males is usually pinkish brown to deep rusty red, but sometimes they are bluish or reddish grey. Underside, hindlegs, forearms and tail tip are lighter than the rest of the body, but their toes and paws are dark. Females most often have blue grey fur.
The red kangaroo has very distinctive white patches with back spots and lines on the sides of the nose, and a wide stripe runs from the corner of the mouth up to the base of each ear. The nose tip is weel defined, V-shaped, hairless and blackish-grey with a grainy texture.
|Range||Australia: widely distributed in the dry inland of the central part of the continent|
|Habitat||Grasslands, mallee, saltbush, mulga, open forest, desert|
|Wild population||8,542,148 (2010) (Department of Sustainability , Environment, Water, Population and Communities, Australian Goverment)|
|Zoo population||954 reported to ISIS (2008)|
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