1. What is a Kangaroo?

2. What is a Kangaroo?
Have you ever heard of a kangaroo? What is a kangaroo? What does a kangaroo do?
Let’s learn a little about kangaroos today!

3. What is a Kangaroo? They are the only large mammal that can hop.
Male kangaroos are called bucks.

4. Females are called does.
What is a Kangaroo?
Females are called does.
Babies are called joeys.

5. What is a Kangaroo?
Joeys are the size of a jellybean when they are born. They are born pink with no hair.
Joeys live in their mother's pouch drinking her milk. After they are a year old, They eat only grasses, leaves and the shoots of small trees.

6. What is a Kangaroo?
At around 4 months, the joey emerges from the pouch for short trips and to graze on grass and small shrubs. At 10 months, the joey is mature enough to leave the pouch for good.
Female Kangaroo’s are very protective over the Joey’s.

7. What is a Kangaroo?
Kangaroos are very good swimmers but they only choose to swim when chased or if they have no other choice.
They have very good hearing, eyesight and sense of smell.

8. What is a Kangaroo?
The mother kangaroo can control the muscles that control the size of her pouch and the size of the opening. She can pulls the pouch tight against the body.

9. What is a Kangaroo?
Try tightening your stomach. Can you do it? By tightening her muscles, she can hold her baby safe in her pocket.
That is why when the mother kangaroos jumps, her babies (joeys) stay in her pouch.

10. What is a Kangaroo?
If the mother kangaroo wants to clean her pouch and wants the joey out, she can also relax the opening allowing the joey to fall out.

11. Some interesting Kangaroo Facts!
Kangaroos are animals that are found in Australia.
There are four different kangaroo species, the red kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroo, western grey kangaroo and antilopine kangaroo.
Kangaroos can hop around quickly on two legs or walk around slowly on all four.
Kangaroos can’t walk backwards.
Kangaroos have very powerful legs and can be dangerous at times.
Kangaroos can jump very high, sometimes three times their own height.
Kangaroos can swim.
Most kangaroos eat grass.
Baby kangaroos are known as ‘joeys’.
A group of kangaroos is called a ‘mob’, ‘troop’ or ‘court’.
Kangaroos usually live to around six years old in the wild.

12. Kangaroo quiz! A baby Kangaroo is called a ______
There are ______ different types of Kangaroos.
Kangaroos are not able to swim, true or false.
Kangaroos usually life until the age of ____.
A Kangaroo is not able to walk ________.