Red kangaroo
Osphranter rufus
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Osphranter rufus
- Class
- Mammal
- Order
- Diprotodontia
- Family
- Macropodidae
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Size
- Medium (1–2 m)
- Active
- At dawn and dusk
- Continent
- Oceania
- Habitat
- Desert, Grassland
- Conservation status
- Least concern
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- A newborn joey is only about as big as a jellybean and crawls into the pouch on its own.
- Hopping kangaroos store energy in their tendons like springs, which makes fast travel surprisingly efficient.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q104831614 · All animals · All entries