Red Kangaroo

The largest of the kangaroos, the red kangaroos (Macropus rufus of Australia's dry inland plains live in small groups. They inhabit wide open spaces with neither trees nor bush. When danger threatens, they scatter in all directions.

Red kangaroos are about 1.8m high and weigh about 90 kg and are the largest living marsupial. The females are a little shorter than the males. The upper part of the nose is covered with hair. While the males have a reddish coat, the females are smoky blue in colour.

The joey spends the first 190 days of its life entirely in the mother’s pouch.

Social animals, they live in herds or mobs of a dozen animals.