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What hunts the kangaroos?

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To this question, most people would answer "none", as the animal they know as the "kangaroo" is a herbivore. This is not always the case, however. There are over 60 species of kangaroo, and some of them to eat other creatures.

Some varieties of tree kangaroo are omnivores, eating insects and other invertebrates. The Goodfellow's tree kangaroo has been known to eat eggs and small birds as well.

Smaller varieties of kangaroos such as the musky-rat kangaroo are omnivores, eating fruits, seeds, fungi, insect larvaeand small invertebrates such as grasshoppers and beetles.

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Kangaroos are mainly hunted by man, who actively seeks to cull their numbers.

Dingoes and wedgetail eagles hunt kangaroos.

Introduced predators such as foxes, wild dogs and feral cats will hunt joeys.

Prior to the extinction of the thylacine (sometimes known as the Tasmanian Tiger), kangaroos would have had to defend themselves against this creature, the largest of the carnivorous marsupials.

Smaller kangaroos, such as wallabies, rat-kangaroos (not kangaroo rats), potoroos, pademelons and bettongs are hunted by quolls and pythons and, occasionally, goannas.

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Kangaroos are mainly hunted by man, who actively seeks to cull their numbers. They are also hunted by dingoes and wedgetail eagles.

Introduced predators such as foxes, wild dogs and feral cats will hunt joeys.

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The term "kangaroo" covers over 60 species of macropods, but for the purpose of this answer, kangaroo refers to one of the four large species of marsupial; the Red Kangaroo, eastern Grey, Western Grey and Antilopine kangaroo.

Kangaroos are mainly hunted by man, who actively seeks to cull their numbers, followed by dingoes and wedgetail eagles.

Introduced predators such as foxes, wild dogs and feral cats will hunt joeys.

Prior to the extinction of the thylacine (sometimes known as the Tasmanian Tiger), kangaroos would have had to defend themselves against this creature, the largest of the carnivorous marsupials.

Smaller kangaroos, such as wallabies, rat-kangaroos (not kangaroo rats), potoroos, pademelons and bettongs are hunted by quolls and pythons.

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Only a very hungry dingo might take on an adult kangaroo, but joeys are commonly subject to predation from dingoes and eagles.

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