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RED KANGAROO
Macropus rufus

This picture is from Images-Australia Vol 7

 

Eats:

Is eaten by:

  • grass

  • shrubs

  • leaves

  • fennel grass

 

  • Foxes [when dead or dying ]

  • dingoes

  • hunters

The Red Kangaroo is the most popular speices of the Kangaroo. Males can weigh up to 85kg. Females weigh up to 27kg. The Red Kangaroo is the main species shot for meat.

And conservationists are concerned that it will become extinct, unless more scientific farming is performed.

Research by Nicole and Holly 5F

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