The Animals
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Kangaroos
Kangaroos are marsupial mammals belonging to the family Macropidae, macropod meaning ‘Big Foot’ and are the largest of all marsupials.
Kangaroos can only hop and cannot walk as they can only move their hind feet together at the same time. Their large, muscular tail acts like an extra leg, providing support when grazing and balance and steering when jumping and balance for fighting.
A male is called a ‘buck’ or ‘boomer’ and females known as a ‘flier’ or ‘doe’. The young are a ‘joey’.
Paradise Country houses both Eastern Grey and Red kangaroos. The fur of an Eastern Grey kangaroo is courser and curlier than a red, and, as the name suggests, grey in colour. Male red kangaroos have a red tinted coat that works as a camouflage to their environment where it blends in with the red soil of inland Australia.
