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What are they doing?
Just the Facts
Types of kangaroos
Interesting
100
Baby Kangaroos are called this.
What are joeys?
100
What is hopping?
100
The kangaroo is one of these, meaning they have a pouch.
What is a marsupial?
100
What is the red kangaroo?
(This is the largest of all kangaroos)
100
A kangaroo can walk backwards
What is false?
200
One of the words to describe a group of Kangaroos is this.
What is a mob, troop, court, or herd?
200
What is grooming?
200
The two places that kangaroos are naturally found.
What are Australia and Papua New Guinea?
200
What are Eastern Grey Kangaroos?
(They control the spread of grasses and other foliage)
200
Kangaroos are god swimmers
True
300
Female kangaroos have this to cradle their babies in.
What is a pouch?
300
A joey jumping out of her mom’s pouch for the first time (after 6 mos)
300
One of the terms for a female kangaroo.
What is a doe, flyer or jill
300
What is a tree kangaroo?
(They are in the tropical rainforests of New Guinea)
300
They use this like a fifth leg.
What is their tail?
400
The joey emerges from it’s mothers pouch at about this age.
What is 4 months?
400
What is boxing?
(Why: to establish rank, impress a female, fight against enemies or play)
400
One of the terms for a male kangaroo.
What is a buck, boomer, or jack
400
What is the antilopine kangaroo (wallaroo or wallaby)?
(The least known species)
400
How high can they jump?
Red kangaroos can jump 6 feet high .
500
One thing that kangaroos do for their troop is this.
Groom each other or protect each other from danger
500
What is playing?
500
They like to hang out in these types of places
Rainforests, forests, eucalyptus woodlands, grasslands and is highly adaptable; able to live in a wide variety of habitats.
500
What is the Western Grey Kangaroo?
(It is common in the Southern part of Australia)
500
Kagaroos have a very keen sense of this.
What is hearing?
(A kangaroo swivels it’s ears to pick up sounds)