Kangaroo
the genus Macropus, the coast of New South Wales. The great kangaroo has large hind legs, with known of the family and first seen by sailors of Captain Cook's expedition on the first about the height of a man. table feeder, and is destructive to the crops of the settlers in the less inhabited a huge tail, short fore limbs, and is districts it is much rarer. method of progression is by a series of districts it is much rarer. Its ordinary It is a vegeparts of Australia; in the long-settled when infuriated it can overcome an adhug him like a bear, and rip him with the great leaps, 10 to 15 feet or more.
Its ordinary claws of its hind feet. Many other species exist. The hare kangaroo or versary it will seize him by its fore feet, when infuriated it can overcome an ad- great leaps, 10 to 15 feet or more. If claws of its hind feet. Many other rock kangaroo, M. robustus; the red garoo, M. agilis; the brush-tailed rock kangaroo, M. penicillatus; and the tree kangaroo, Dendrolagus ursinus.
If teemed fodder grass of Australia. It grows to a height much above that of