Antilopine kangaroo was created in 1842.
An antilopine wallaby is another name for an antilopine kangaroo - a species of kangaroo found in northern Australia.
An antilopine wallaroo is another name for an antilopine kangaroo - a species of kangaroo, Latin name Macropus antilopinus, found in northern Australia.
There really are 4 species of kangaroos, including the red kangaroo, the eastern grey kangaroo, the western grey kangaroo, and the antilopine kangaroo.
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There are four species that are referred to as kangaroos: red kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroo, western grey kangaroo and the antilopine kangaroo. Kangaroos are the only large animals to use hopping as a means of locomotion.
The Antilopine kangaroo is found only in the far northern monsoonal regions of Australia. They are found from Cape York Peninsula in Queensland across to what is commonly called the "Top End", or the Northern Territory and west to the Kimberley region of Western Australia. They inhabit the grassy, eucalyptus regions of this area.
Antilopine kangaroos, like other macropodids, have a diploid chromosome number of 16. Therefore, their gametes (sperm and eggs) contain half this number, resulting in 8 chromosomes in each gamete.
The red kangaroo is related to all members of the kangaroo family. This includes the Western Grey, Eastern Grey and Antilopine kangaroos. Other members of the kangaroo family, to which the red kangaroo must therefore be related, are the wallaroos, wallabies, quokkas, pademelons, tree-kangaroos, potoroos, bettongs and rat-kangaroos. For details regarding specific kangaroo species, see the related question.
Australians probably do not have a "favourite" kangaroo, as such. If the word "favourite" can be transposed into "the best known", it would be the Red kangaroo. This is the one that is most prolific, and probably the one most associated with the Australian image. The one that many 'baby boomers' identify with is "Skippy, the Bush Kangaroo", from an Australian children's television series of the 1960s-70s.
Kangaroos come in more than one colour. There are over 60 species of kangaroo, from the largest, the Red kangaroo and the Grey kangaroo, through many varieties of wallabies, and down to the smallest member of the kangaroo, the musky-rat kangaroo. Because there are so many varieties, their colour varies from reddish-brown to grey, some having darker extremities (feet, nose, tail), such as the wallaroo. There is no discernible colour difference between males and females. An exception to this are the antilopine wallaroo and the red kangaroo, where the female tends to be greyer than the male, which is much redder in colour.
The colour of a kangaroo varies depending on the species. There are over 60 species of kangaroo, from the largest, the Red kangaroo and the Grey kangaroo, through many varieties of wallabies, and down to the smallest member of the kangaroo, the musky-rat kangaroo. Because there are so many varieties, their colour varies from reddish-brown to grey, some having darker extremities (feet, nose, tail), such as the wallaroo.Tree kangaroos tend to have black faces and black paws, are are lighter on their underbelly. Their back is dark, ranging from a vivid dusky orange or rusty red to brown to dark grey, depending on the species.There is no discernible colour difference between males and females. An exception to this are the antilopine wallaroo and the red kangaroo, where the female tends to be greyer than the male, which is much redder in colour.