Kenguru

~ Blood Pheasant.

~ Photo by 👉🏻 📸: Luci Lopez.

The lower jaw of the kangaroo has a peculiar structure, its posterior ends are bent inwards. In total, animals have 32 or 34 teeth that do not have roots and are adapted to feeding on coarse plant foods:

one wide, forward-pointing incisor on each half of the lower jaw;
small blunted canines reduced in some species;
4 pairs of molars, alternating as they abrasion and equipped with blunt tubercles. When the last teeth wear out, the animal begins to starve.

Large kangaroos are very interesting animals, which are difficult not to recognize. Their head is small, with large ears and large almond-shaped eyes. The eyes are framed by long dense eyelashes that reliably protect the cornea from dust. The nose of the animals is black and naked.

Usually male kangaroos are much larger in size than females. The growth of females stops soon after the start of reproduction, and males continue to grow, as a result of which old individuals are much larger than young ones. A female gray or red kangaroo weighing 15–20 kg, participating in reproduction for the first time, can be cared for by a male who is 5–6 times larger than her. Sexual dimorphism is most pronounced in large species. In contrast, in small wallabies, adults of different sexes have similar sizes.