The kangaroo is a marsupial from the household Macropodidae (macropods, that means "large foot"). In frequent use the time period is used to describe the greatest species from this family, the purple kangaroo, as nicely as the antilopine kangaroo, Japanese gray kangaroo, and western gray kangaroo. Kangaroos are indigenous to Australia and New Guinea. The Australian authorities estimates that 34.3 million kangaroos lived inside the business harvest areas of Australia in 2011, up from 25.1 million one year earlier.
As with the phrases "wallaroo" and "wallaby", "kangaroo" refers to a paraphyletic grouping of species. All three refer to individuals of the identical taxonomic family, Macropodidae, and are distinct in accordance to size. The greatest species in the household are known as "kangaroos" and the smallest are normally known as "wallabies". The time period "wallaroos" refers to species of an intermediate size. There are additionally the tree-kangaroos, any other kind of macropod, which inhabit the tropical rainforests of New Guinea, a ways northeastern Queensland and some of the islands in the region.
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