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Kangaroo (other)
A kangaroo is a large marsupial endemic to Australia. Kangaroo may also refer to: Aircraft and aerospace * Blackburn Kangaroo, a British World War I heavy bomber * Kangaroo Route, a term for commercial flights between Europe and Australasia via the Eastern Hemisphere * PWN-9 Kangaroo, a 1969 American sounding rocket project * Sol Kangaroo, a Brazilian paraglider design * Vulcanair Canguro, Italian civil utility aircraft in the 1980s * ''The Kangaroo'', a Cessna Model AW with a Warner-Scarab engine owned by Eddie August Henry Schneider Fiction and fictional characters * ''Kangaroo'' (novel), a story by D. H. Lawrence * Kangaroo (comics), an enemy of Spider-Man in comics Film * ''Kangaroo'' (1952 film), an American film directed by Lewis Milestone * ''Kangaroo'' (1986 film), an Australian film based on the 1923 D.H. Lawrence novel ''Kangaroo'' * ''Kangaroo'' (2007 film), an Indian Malayalam film directed by Raj Babu starring Prithviraj Sukumaran * ''Kangaroo'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kangaroo
Kangaroos are marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot"). In common use, the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the red kangaroo, as well as the antilopine kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroo, and western grey kangaroo. Kangaroos are indigenous to Australia and New Guinea. The Australian government estimates that 42.8 million kangaroos lived within the commercial harvest areas of Australia in 2019, down from 53.2 million in 2013. As with the terms " wallaroo" and "wallaby", "kangaroo" refers to a paraphyletic grouping of species. All three terms refer to members of the same taxonomic family, Macropodidae, and are distinguished according to size. The largest species in the family are called "kangaroos" and the smallest are generally called "wallabies". The term "wallaroos" refers to species of an intermediate size. There are also the tree-kangaroos, another type of macropod which inhabit the upper branches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
