Kangaroo Facts for Kids | Interesting Educational Video about Kangaroos for Children | Fun Facts

This is an educational video for children. Here are some interesting and fun facts about Kangaroos. • Kangaroos are marsupial animals that are found in Australia • There are more than 30 million kangaroos currently living in Australia. • Kangaroos come from a family of animals called macropods, which means ‘large foot’. Their big feet help them with all that leaping around! • Kangaroos are brilliant jumpers and can leap as high as 3 meters. • When kangaroos hop, they use both legs at once but kangaroos are also able to walk around on all four legs. • They have long, strong tails that help them to keep their balance. • Kangaroos are fast movers, usually traveling at around 20-25 miles per hour. However, when necessary, kangaroos can travel at 40 miles per hour! • There are four different kangaroo species, the red kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroo, western grey kangaroo and antilopine kangaroo. • Kangaroos stand between five and six feet tall from their feet to their long, pointed ears. They weigh between 50 and 120 pounds. • A male kangaroo is called a buck, boomer or jack and a female kangaroo is called a doe, flyer or jill. • A baby kangaroo is called joey. • Male kangaroos are taller and heavier than female kangaroos. • Mother kangaroos have special pouches on the fronts of their bodies for carrying their joeys in. • Directly after being born, the tiny joey climbs up its mother’s fur to reach her pouch. At this stage the joey is really tiny; just a few centimeters...