Kangaroos need to be able to detect danger early enough so they can escape. Their large ears act rather like radar. Kangaroos have the ability to hear very well: they can twitch their ears independently around to determine the direction of specific sounds, much as a cat does. This gives them plenty of forewarning of danger.
All kangaroos are called "macropods", a word derived from the Latin word, Macropus, meaning "Long-footed".Rufus is the Latin for "red". Red kangaroos have a reddish-brown tinge to their coats, quite different to the Grey kangaroos.
Red kangaroos are the largest of all the kangaroo species, so they are probably also the strongest of the kangaroo species.
The main purpose of the large kangaroo ear is to give them better hearing, so that they can detect the approach of predators.
Kangaroos are mammals, so they are in the class mammalia. They are marsupials, and macropods.
The red kangaroo is the largest of all the 60 or so kangaroo species in Australia.
Kangaroos do not have useless ears. Kangaroos have the ability to hear very well: they can twitch their ears independently around to determine the direction of specific sounds, much as a cat does. This gives them plenty of forewarning of danger.
Red kangaroos are not carnivores, so they do not hunt. Being herbivores, they feed on grass and new shoots of young trees. Red kangaroos do most of their feeding in the early morning and at dusk, but they do feed at night as they are nocturnal.
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His ears were as large as satellite dishes.
Kangaroos have an acute sense of hearing because they need to be on the alert for predators. They can twitch their ears around to determine the direction of specific sounds, much as a cat does.
Kangaroos are essentially nocturnal, so tend to sleep during the day and be active at night.