Kangaroos

Kangaroos are large animals that live in Australia. You can see kangaroos in zoos.

Kangaroos can move very quickly. Also they jump with their tails up.

Kangaroos are not normal mammals, they are marsupials. Marsupials have pouches and milk. Kangaroo babies are called joeys. When the baby has gone too far the mother calls the joey back.

The baby goes in the pouch head first then it does a flip in its mother’s pouch. When a mother has a dingo running after it with its baby in its pouch she lets it go in a good hiding spot. At night the mother comes and finds the joey. When the baby kangaroo is born it holds onto its mother’s fur up into her pouch.