Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Tree kangaroos eats mostly leaves and fruit, although they will also collect fruit that has fallen to the ground. The animals will also eat other items such as grains, flowers, sap, eggs, young birds, and even bark.
What are tree Kangaroos?
What does the young animal look like?
Kangaroos are marsupials native to Australia, while tree kangaroos are also native to New Guinea and some of the islands of Indonesia.
Tree kangaroos have adapted to life up in the foliage, so they sport shorter legs and strong forelimbs for climbing. In 1990, a new species of tree kangaroo was discovered in the Torricelli Mountains of Papua New Guinea.
How does the animal communicate?
The tree kangaroo has feet that are shorter and wider than ur typical kangaroo as well as longer claws, they walk hunched over, also it is known for jumping as it leaps from tree to tree, and its known to jump almost 30 feet down and will jump to the ground from as high up as 60ft without being injured!!
Female tree kangaroos give birth to one offspring after a gestation period of approximately 44 days. After birth, the fetus-like young, called a joey, crawls to a teat located inside the mother's pouch, where it attaches itself to nurse.
How is the animal born??
Female tree kangaroos give birth to one offspring after a gestation period of approximately 44 days. After birth, the fetus-like young, called a joey, crawls to a teat located inside the mother's pouch, where it attaches itself to nurse.
How does the animal protect its self?
The tree kangaroos have enemies such as owls, eagles and pythons, but on the ground they have no chance against dogs or dingoes.
Unlike other kangaroos, Goodfellow's Tree Kangaroos like to stay in the treetops rather than hopping around on the ground. They choose to live in the treetops to protect themselves from enemies on the ground.