Did You Know?

• A male kangaroo is called a buck. It is also commonly called a "boomer" or an "old man".
• A female kangaroo is called a doe, or a flyer.
• A baby kangaroo is called a joey.
• Kangaroos have good eyesight but only respond to moving objects.
• They have excellent hearing and can swivel their large ears in all directions to pick up sounds.
• Kangaroos are social animals that live in groups or "mobs" of at least two or three individuals and up to 100 kangaroos.
• Kangaroos are the only large animals that move by hopping.
• Most kangaroos can only move both back legs together - and not one at a time.
• Male kangaroos "box", either in play, when asserting their dominance or in serious competition over females. The punching of the front legs is pretty harmless, but the powerful hind legs with their long sharp toenails are a dangerous weapon.
• Kangaroos can disembowel opponents, be it other kangaroos or predators like dogs.
• A female kangaroo can have three babies at the same time: an older joey living outside the pouch but still drinking milk, a young one in the pouch attached to a teat, and an embryo awaiting birth.
• In Greek, macropod means “long foot”, which is appropriate as most macropods have very long hind feet with long strong toes.
• The Western grey kangaroo males are known as stinkers due to their strong,curry-like smell.