Red Kangaroo

SCIENTIFIC NAME

Macropus Rufus

FAMILY

Macropódidos

NATURAL DISTRIBUTION

Sheets and semiarid and arid steppes in the South-east of Australia. 

SUPPLY

Vegetarian. It feeds of grasses coriáceas, dicotiledóneas. 

GESTATION

35 days in the uterus and 235 days in the bag.

BABIES

1

EXPECTATION LIFE 

From 15 to 20 years

HEIGHT

1m.

WEIGHT

0,8 g. to the exit of the uterus; from 2 to 4 kg to the exit of the marsupio. The macho generally weighs more than the female reaching 90 kg.

CONDITION OF CONSERVATION
 
It is not on the verge of extinction.