Kangaroos do not have a longer gestation period, and to do so would be of no advantage anyway. Kangaroos are marsupials, and all marsupials are characterised by having a shorter gestation period than placental mammals of similar size. Most of the kangaroo Joel's development occurs in the mother's pouch, over a period of 8-12 months.

They crawl up the mother fur and out of the puch and the onto the grass but i have seen in quiet alot where the feces are inside a mothers pouch, that only with younger ones though the bigger ones that can stand get out ( yes i am Australian)

A pouch is a place for marsupials such as kangaroos to carry their young. Kangaroo baby climb to the pouch after being born at around 31-36 days. Inside the pouch, there are teats for the joey and this is a warm place for it to develop fully. They stay in the pouch for about nine months.

Kangaroos are vertebrate animals. Yes, kangaroos have spinal columns.

Information on the exact number of bones a kangaroo has is extremely limited. However, looking at a kangaroo skeleton (see related link) it can be seen that they have a large number of large and small bones.

I'm interpreting your question as: Why is it difficult to get up and get going in the morning? If so, then there could be a variety of reasons. If it continues to get worse and begins to affect your ability to perform activities of daily living, please go to a doctor and get your self checked.

Possibilities can range from depression to hypoglycemia. Both of those can be treated with the proper medication. It may also be an indicator of some other underlying condition that may be even a bigger concern. Best thing is if it continues to worry you, get an examination.

The Brush tailed rat-kangaroo, also known as the brush tailed bettong, or the woylie, is endangered for the same reasons that many of Australia's native species are endangered. Habitat destruction and changed fire regimes are largely responsible for the woylie's endangerment. Introduced species such as foxes and feral cats have drastically reduced woylie numbers, as has competition for food with introduced herbivores such as rabbits and livestock.

The kangaroo paw is a small, flowering shrub native to the far southwestern corner of Western Australia. This is the only place where these plants grow in the wild. They can grow in a variety of habitats, from coastal heath to the edge of swamps and rivers, and grassland to light bushland.

Kangaroos are endemic to the Australian continent. You will not find them in Texas unless they are in specially licensed zoos.

There are millions of kangaroos in Australia. They are a very common sight in the outback, bushland and even the fringes of some settlements.

Kangaroo populations vary widely from year to year in Australia. For example, due to drought conditions, Red kangaroo numbers in NSW dropped from 500,000 in 2002 to 110,000 in 2005.

2007 figures for the kangaroo and wallaroo/euro populations in Australia estimated there were 24,008,610 members of both species in NSW, Qld, South Australia and Western Australia. Figures for Tasmania, Northern Territory and Victoria are not included.

These figures do not take into account all the smaller members of the kangaroo family, including wallaroos, all the species of wallabies, quokkas, rufous rat-kangaroos and pademelons right down to the tiny desert-dwelling musky rat kangaroos.

Kangaroos have powerful legs, and all members of the kangaroo family share this characteristic of large, strong hind legs and short forelegs. Kangaroos are well known for their jumping capabilities and use their long, powerful, muscular tails to help balance.

The female kangaroo has a pouch for the joey (baby). She gives birth to a single undeveloped young which crawls up to the pouch, where it latches on to a teat which swells in its mouth. This secures the young joey in place while it continues its final stages of development.

Because they are constantly on the alert for predators, they have ears with acute sensitivity, which can twist in any direction.

Unlike other grazing animals, kangaroos barely pass any wind. An enzyme in the gut dispels the gas.

Kangaroo Island was the site of the first settlement in South Australia. It was initially surveyed as a site for a new port to serve the southern coast,but there were not enough good agricultural prospects to sustain a colony, so surveying continued on the mainland. However, Kangaroo Island became a popular location for sealers and whalers. It was also the island that saved Matthew Flinders' crew from starvation during their circumnavigation of te continent. Flinders named the island for the abundance of kangaroos found there.

More recently, South Australia has gained in importance as a natural, predator-free island where koalas, which have been relocated, are so abundant that they actually face an overpopulation problem.

Yes, kangaroos are protected by law in Australia. All of Australia's native mammals are protected.

Yes ,they wont get hunted. If they get hurt or sick a person would cure them.And there are no pertadors aronud.

Kangaroo Island lies off the coast of South Australia, just off the southern tips of the Yorke and Fleurieu Peninsulas.

The bilby has become Australia's new symbol of Easter. In Australia, the development of the Easter Bilby has been a protracted campaign by many groups concerned with preserving the critically endangered bilby. The idea of an Easter bilby has actually been around since the 1970s. One of its sources may be a book entitled Billy the Aussie Easter Bilby being launched by author Rose-Marie Dusting, in Adelaide in 1979. Dusting donated a percentage of the sales of her book to conservation of the bilby. there are other claims of small groups implementing the concept of an Easter bilby, all around the same time, i.e. late 1970s to early 1980s.

The great majority of kangaroo species originate in Australia. Species such as the Red kangaroo, both species of Grey kangaroo, all wallabies, bettongs, rat-kangaroos, potoroos, quokkas and pademelons are native to the continent.

However, not all tree kangaroos come from Australia.

Bennett's Tree Kangaroo and Lumholtz's Tree Kangaroo both live in far North Queensland, Australia. There are also eight (possibly ten) species of tree kangaroo on the island of New Guinea, which comprises Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya (Indonesia).

No. Opossums, shrew opossums, and the Monito Del Monte (total 102 species) live in the Americas. Also, if you only meant to include the island of Australia in your question, then New Guinea, many islands between Sulawesi and New Guinea, Tasmania, and New Zealand also have marsupial species.

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The name Australia is derived from the Latin Australis, meaning of the South. Legends of an "unknown land of the south" (terra australis incognita) date back to the Roman times and were commonplace in mediaeval geography, but they were not based on any actual knowledge of the continent. The Dutch adjectival form Australische ("Australian", in the sense of "southern") was used by Dutch officials in Batavia to refer to the newly discovered land to the south as early as 1638. The first use of the word "Australia" in English was a 1693 translation of Les Aventures de Jacques Sadeur dans la Découverte et le Voyage de la Terre Australe, a 1692 French novel by Gabriel de Foigny under the pen name Jacques Sadeur [1]. Alexander Dalrymple then used it in An Historical Collection of Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean, published in 1771. He used the term to refer to the entire South Pacific region, not specifically to the Australian continent. In 1793, George Shaw and Sir James Smith published Zoology and Botany of New Holland, in which they wrote of "the vast island, or rather continent, of Australia, Australasia or New Holland."
the name Australia comes from the Latin word australis, meaning Southern

Taronga Zoo, Sydney. ---- Most zoos around the world would have kangaroos. Kangaroos are plentiful in Australia and they can live in a variety of climates. They can survive on grass, which is also plentiful. Chances are your local zoo has kangaroos.

Yes. The tree kangaroo lives in most layers of the rainforest, sheltering in the trees. Its food source is leaves, fruit and young seedlings which it may get from either the trees or on the ground.

It depends upon what you understand by the term "desert". Dingoes do not live in sandy deserts. They live almost everywhere, including semi-arid areas of Australia, where spinifex grass or scrubland is plentiful, and where there is a permanent water supply, even if they have to dig to reach it. Where there is any type of vegetation, there is also animal life. Dingoes are opportunistic feeders, eating any prey that is available, and also carrion. They have a short coat with an undercoat that protects them from both the daytime desert heat and the night-time desert cold. They tend to live in areas where there are rocks and caves for shelter.

The Musky Rat Kangaroo's average body size is about 23cm (ranging from 15 to 30 cm), and its head to tail length averages 30-43 cm. The weight, which is similar for both males and females, ranges between 337 and 680 grams.