Kangaroo

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A kangaroo is an animal lives in Eastern Australia. It has a smaller relative called a wallaby which lives on the Australian island of Tasmanian and also in New Guinea. 

Kangaroos eat grass and plants. They have short front leg, but they have very long and very strong hind legs and a tail. These they use for sitting up on and for jumping. Kangaroos have been known to make forward jumps of over 8 meters and leap across fences more than 3 meters high. They can also run at speed of over 45 kilometers per hour.

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The largest kangaroos are the great Grey Kangaroo and the Red Kangaroo. Adult kangaroo grows to a length of 160 meters and weighs over 90 kilograms.

Kangaroos are marsupials. This means that the female kangaroo has external pouch on the front of her body. A baby kangaroo is very tiny when it is born. It crawls at once into this pouch where it spends first five months of life.