Kangaroos and wallabies
Kangaroos and Wallabies are spiecies of the genus macropus, under the family Macropodidae. Like other members of the family, they are herbivorous, browsing and grazing marsupials. They also have very large hindfeet extending into a large, powerful fourth toe and the tail is never perhensile. Members of the genus Macropus are characterized by large grinding molars, and a stomach that digests very fibrous grasses.
kangaoos and joeys
Being a marsupial, kangaroos and wallabies bear their young at a very early stage of development: (for the red kangaroo) only 33 days after conception. The newborn kangaroos are weak, blind and lack fully developed hindlegs. They attach themselves to a teat in the pouch and stay there during the "joey", the young kangaroo, develops. Even after this period it continues to suckle until 14 months old.
Australia has very few big animals, largest are the kangaroos (Some, say the red kangaroos, stands up to 2m tall). These are herbivoures, and even the carnivorous marsupials are of the size of rats or mice. Their greatest enemy might be humans, who shoot them for meat and fur. However it is still quite an abundant spiecies.
