Only found in Queensland rainforest, the Lumholtz tree Kangaroo has a short stocky body with an extremely long tail which it uses for balance. They are very agile and uses its powerful limbs both fore and hind to climb even thin branches. Its cushioned and rough soled feet help it to cling to tree trunks.
Unlike other kangaroos it can use its hind legs (like walking) not always in a hopping motion. They can leap long distances (up to 15 meters) by pushing with its legs of the tree trunk and then twisting in mid air to land perfectly at its destination.
Waaah, first post in months! Did you miss me? #me #girl #woman #ootd #outfit #look #kangaroo #backpack #colorful #winter #happy #scream #loveyouall #fashiondisaster #fashiondisastercc
Here’s some new characters that you might not have seen! Starting from the front left; Dexter, Brazilda, Geemer, Louis, behind them is Cooper, and Plague is watching over them with his magic ball. Danger awaits!
Guest reviewer Timescape plays Kangaroo for the Atari 2600. The 1982 arcade game about a mother kangaroo rescuing her child from menacing monkeys was Sunsoft’s answer to Donkey Kong.
#Australia #winter2019 #mooneebeach The best #emotions from what was #experienced on this #journey)) #Delight, #fear and #joy !! #Adrenaline at the limit of such #proximity with a #kangaroo) “Fucking” #life - thanks for such an #opportunity! (at Moonee Beach, New South Wales, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3wGE6Pn2zt/?igshid=1e6umlm4ndcx3
#Australia #winter2019 from #Darwin to #Adelaide from #northernterritory to #southaustralia from#ocean to #Ocean #kangaroo #desert #soltlake #waytothesun #trip #arroundthewold (at Port Adelaide, South Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3jN7yqnq2V/?igshid=jy3s72bmspmk
666 post))) #Australia #winter2019 from #Alisesprings to #cooberpedy from #northernterritory to #southaustralia #kangaroo #desert #soltlake #waytothesun #trip #arroundthewold (at Coober Pedy, South Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3faIHyH7M9/?igshid=saljtbeiilxz
Mounted skeleton on display at Victoria Fossil Cave, Naracoorte Caves National Park, South Australia
Reconstruction by Peter Trusler.
When: Pleistocene (~ 2 million to 15,000 years ago)
Where: Throughout Australia
What:Procoptodon is a giant fossil kangaroo. Exactly how ‘giant’ it is has been a bit exaggerated, heights of up to 10 feet (~3 meters) have been reported, but this would have been its maximum height when it reared up fully on its hind legs, with its arms reaching up for high branches. Procoptodon was capable of this posture, but (like living kangaroos) it did not stand fully upright most of the time. In its normal feeding (and most everything else) poster it would have stood about 6.5 feet (~ 2 meters) tall; about the same height as the largest of the modern red kangaroos. Procoptodon was not the same size as these animals though, it was much more massive and would have been over twice the weight of a red kangaroo of equivalent height.
Procoptodon was very well adapted for the semiarid conditions that characterized much of Australia during the Pleistocene, but fossil remains have also been found in the more hospitable regions of prehistorical Australia. The marsupials of Australia are well known for their convergence evolution upon forms from other continents (such as the tasmanian tiger and the marsupial mole), but the kangaroo does not look like any placental mammal known. However, in terms of its lifestyle, the ecological niche that it inhabits, the group is convergent upon hoofed animals, such as deers! Procoptodon overlapped with human habitation of Australia, and it is thought some Aboriginal folktales are about this massive kangaroo.
Procoptodon is a member of the group Sthenurinae - the shortfaced kangaroos. As you probably guessed these kangaroos had much shorter snouts than the modern species of kangaroos. This group is completely extinct. It is one of the subgroups of the Macropodidae, the clade of marsupials that contains all kangaroos and wallabies, as well as a few other groups. It has been proposed that within the Macropodidae the closest living relative of Procoptodon is the Banded hare-wallaby, though this is not universally accepted.
In the prehistoric outback Procoptodon would have co-exsited with the largest marsupial of all time Diprodotonand was a hunted by the marsupial lion Thylacoleo. And the second link you can see this marsupial predator hunting a close relative of Procoptodon!
Quokkas are to kangaroo rats as Man-Bat is to Batman. Which is to say, quokkas are rat kangaroos. They’re ugly, scruffy little sons of bitches, but I’ll be damned if they haven’t got something. They’ve got it, you know? That special something extra, that x factor. They look like they crawled out of an Australian sewer the morning after a mad scientist improperly disposed of some radioactive wallaby juice, but they kind of make it work. And since they’re from some of those random Australian islands with practically no predators, they aren’t afraid of people! So they’ll come right on up to you and get in your lap and let you scratch their little ears and obviously that can only mean something terrible. No matter how adorably curious they may be, if you even TOUCH one of those fuckers the Australian government will find out about it and ticket you for $300. That is so unfair! The quokka came on to me, officer. Make the fucking rat kangaroo pay the damn fine.
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