Kangaroos

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Kangaroos

• By Jacob Parnell

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What is the Kangaroos Average Life Span?

• The kangaroos do not live like we do. We live to
  be about 100 years old. Instead they live about
  6-8 years.
• If you want to see them, see them quickly or they
  will die.
• Some Kangaroos live to be in the wild to be about
  32 years old. That is very old for a kangaroo!
• Those kangaroos would be very lucky.

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Where does it like to Live?

• They mostly like living in the grasslands of open
  Australia.
• They also live in open woodland areas.
• Also, they like living in forests like
  rainforests and other forests.
• Other than that, they live in the savannah
  grassy plains.

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What does it like to Eat?

• As a baby they drink milk from their mother.
• They also eat grass. But it is not ordinary
  grass. Not brown, not yellow not brown yellow,
  not green yellow, not whatever. It is the purest
  green airiest green, the greenest green of all
  the greens there are. Green grass.

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What time does it eat?

• If they do it at night (which they do mainly),
  they eat from dusk to dawn.
• If they do it during the day it must be cloudy
  cool.

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What can it Do?

• Most people know that it has the ability to hop
  the inability to walk backwards.
• But most people do not know that it has the lack
  of thumb.

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What body parts does it have?

• Adults may know that kangaroos have a small head,
  pointed nose, large ears, a long tail that helps
  balance during fast hopping and long powerful
  hind legs.
• They may not know that they have strong back
  limbs, long back feet, a powerful, long 4th toe
  a marsupial pouch for their young.

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What is the Size of it as an Adult?

• It is 5 feet 6 inches long, 6 feet 0 inches tall
  and weighs 40-150 pounds.

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And now
2 Interesting Facts.
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2 Interesting Facts

1. They are the only large mammal that can hop.
2. A kangaroo is the size of a bumblebee at birth.

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Bibliography

• The World Book Student Encyclopedia Book. V.6
  P.115
• Brust, Beth Wagner. Kangaroos.
• www.yahooligans.com. Kangaroos.