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Kangaroos are four marsupials from the family Macropodidae.

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The eastern grey kangaroo is predominantly a grazer, and eats a wide variety of grasses, whereas some other species such as the red kangaroo include significant amounts of shrubs in their diets.
Different species of kangaroos have different diets, although all are strict herbivores.
However, this is a different, more strenuous, activity than it is in ruminants, and does not take place as frequently.
They sometimes regurgitate the vegetation they have eaten, chew it as cud, and then swallow it again for final digestion.
Kangaroos have single-chambered stomachs quite unlike those of cattle and sheep, which have four compartments.
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Hopping at moderate speeds is the most energy efficient, and a kangaroo moving above 15 km/h (9.3 mph) maintains energy consistency more than similarly sized animals running at the same speed.
Both pentapedal walking and fast hopping are energetically costly.
At slow speeds, it employs pentapedal locomotion, using its tail to form a tripod with its two forelimbs while bringing its hind feet forward.
Seventy percent of potential energy is stored in the elastic tendons.
which attaches near the large fourth toe, is used for push-off.
During a hop, the powerful gastrocnemius muscles lift the body off the ground while the smaller plantaris muscle,
while it can sustain a speed of 40 km/h (25 mph) for nearly 2 km (1.2 mi).
The comfortable hopping speed for a red kangaroo is about 20–25 km/h (12–16 mph), but speeds of up to 70 km/h (43 mph) can be attained over short distances,
Kangaroos are the only large mammals to use hopping on two legs as their primary means of locomotion.
The term wallaby is an informal designation generally used for any macropod that is smaller than a kangaroo or a wallaroo that has not been designated otherwise.
but kangaroos are specifically categorised into the four largest species of the family.
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Kangaroos and wallabies belong to the same taxonomic family (Macropodidae) and often the same genera,
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The first glimpse of a kangaroo for many 18th-century Britons was a painting by George Stubbs.
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The animal was shot and its skin and skull transported back to England whereupon it was stuffed (by taxidermists who had never seen the animal before) and displayed to the general public as a curiosity.
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The first kangaroo to be exhibited in the Western world was an example shot by John Gore, an officer on Captain Cook's ship, HMS Endeavour, in 1770.
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The red kangaroo appears to be the most recently evolved kangaroo, with its fossil record not going back beyond the Pleistocene era, 1–2 mya.
Species related to the modern grey kangaroos and wallaroos begin to appear in the Pliocene.
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In addition, their ankle bones had an articulation that would have prohibited much lateral movements, an adaptation for bipedal hopping.
This would indicate that they were bipedal.
The middle to late bulungamayines, Ganguroo and Wanburoo lacked digit 1 of the hind foot and digits 2 and 3 were reduced and partly under the large digit 4, much like the modern kangaroo foot.
while others hold the contrary view.
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Some argue that the balbarines were the ancestors of rat-kangaroos and the bulungamayines were the ancestors of kangaroos.
There is dispute over the relationships of the two groups to modern kangaroos and rat-kangaroos.
The most numerous early macropods, the Balbaridae and the Bulungamayinae, became extinct in the Late Miocene around 5–10 mya.
At this time, there was a radiation of macropodids characterised by enlarged body size and adaptation to the low quality grass diet with the development of foregut fermentation.
From the Late Miocene through the Pliocene and into the Pleistocene the climate got drier, which led to a decline of forests and expansion of grasslands.
when the climate was much wetter, and fed on leaves and stems.
This ancestor was likely arboreal and lived in the canopies of the extensive forests that covered most of Australia at that time,
Kangaroos and other macropods share a common ancestor with the Phalangeridae from the Middle Miocene.
In addition, there are about 50 smaller macropods closely related to the kangaroos in the family Macropodidae.
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This enlarges nasal passages and allows them to release more heat in hot and humid climates.
Characteristically, the noses of males swell behind the nostrils.
Its name comes from its fur, which is similar in colour and texture to that of antelopes.
Like them, it is a creature of the grassy plains and woodlands, and gregarious.