are Kangaroos endangered? if not, what animals from australia are?
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Not counting the related bandicoots, there are four species of officially endangered wallabies in Australia. They are the Banded Hare-Wallaby, the Bridled Nailtail Wallaby, the Prosperine Rock-wallaby, and the Rufous Hare-wallaby (its cousin, the Eastern Hare-wallaby, is extinct).\n\nBanded Hare-wallaby: A tiny gray kangaroo less than three feet high. Its population is restricted to Bernier and Dorre islands in Shark Bay, Western Australia. Exact numbers are unknown; it failed to reestablish itself on Dirk Hartog Island in the 1970s. \n\nBridled Nailtail-wallaby: Gets its name from a horny spur on the end of its tail. Only known populations is near the town of Dingo in Queensland, Australia. In the early 1980s, it was numbered at 800 individuals.\n\nProsperine Rock-wallaby: Small but quite agile; jumps 13 feet. Remains near Prosperine, northeast coastal Queensland. No estimates of its population.\n\nWhere Do Kangaroos Live?\nKangaroos live throughout inland Australia and occupy mixed habitats of grasslands, mallee scrubs, open shrub lands, mulga country, and desert.\n\nWhat Do Kangaroos Feed On?\nThe red kangaroo eats during the night on a wide variety of grasses and low plants, though sometimes this grazing period starts in the late evening and ends early in the morning When water is available the kangaroo will drink. But if it obtains enough green food, it does not need to do so.\n\nCan You Tell Me How Kangaroos Communicate?\nKangaroos thump the ground with their feet to warn other members of its group that there is danger, for example a dingo attack.\nHow's the Breeding Done?\n\nKangaroo females are mature after around eighteen months. Males are mature after about two years. There is one young kangaroo, or a joey, although a mother can care for more than a single joey at a time. Kangaroo joeys remain in the pouch for 5-6 months. When they emerge, they look just like their parents, only they are smaller.\nAfter 2-3 months, they gradually spend more time away from the pouch, returning to its safety when they feel threatened. Joeys are usually weaned at around 1 year of age, but they will generally stay close to their mother for another 6 months.\n\nKangaroo Boxing!\nWhen male kangaroos fight, they look kind of like they are boxing. Standing on their hind legs, they try to knock the other kangaroo off balance. If that doesn't work, the kangaroos stay up on their tails and kick with their hind legs. Male kangaroos usually fought over female kangaroos. The largest male in a group will fight against other males to show and prove that he is the strongest and largest.
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Kangaroo rats are highly adapted to the desert environment that comprises their natural habitat. This is a water conserving adaptation.
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Echidna!  The Australian echidna is the oldest mammal species still alive ... at a whopping 120 million years (!!) and going strong.  Since that is *way* back before dinosaurs went belly-up (65 mya), clearing the way for the mammals to really take off, I'd say that echidna's a shoe-in for longest-lived mammal species of all time.\n\nReason?  See pictures of the guy ... way too adorable to go extinct.  Predators look at him and go "awwww" (and the spines are a good idea too).
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Well, the American bison (Bison bison) is listed as being at Least Risk by the IUCN (the World Conservation Union).  While being virtually extirpated from the United States, there are large and thriving populations in Canada.  Enough so that my local grocery store regularily carries Bison steaks.  Mmmmm... yummy.\n\nThe European bison or wisent (Bison bonasus) is listed as Endangered.  The species was down to less than 20 captive individuals back in the 1920s.  There are programs currently underway to establish refuges for the wisent in Poland, Ukraine, Russia and Belorussia, and there are now as many as 250 animals in the wild.  However genetic diversity issues mean that they are in serious trouble.\n\nMost seals are listed as Least Risk or Vulnerable by the IUCN, however there are some that are Endangered or Critically Endangered.\n\nOne of the most Critically Endangered is the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus), which is threatened by habitat loss and degradation, invasive parasites and pathogens such as toxic algae, ongoing harvesting and hunting, accidental mortality and their own restricted range.  \n\nThe French government twice initiated captive breeding projects, but both times shut down the projects over protests from the international monk seal scientific and conservation communities.  \n\nMany countries have introduced laws protecting the Mediterranean monk seal, but implementation has been less than rigorous.  There are so many countries around the Mediterranean that would all need to agree on conservation measures that it may be too late for this species.\n\nThe related Hawaiian monk seal (Monachus schauinslandi) is also Endangered, and the Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis) is already considered Extinct.\n\nThe Japanese sea lion (Zalophus japonicus) is also considered Extinct, last seen in 1951.\n\nThe walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) is one of the species listed in the IUCN Redlist as being at Least Risk.  There are healthy populations in many northern nations.  Unless something totally unthinkable happens, like global temperatures rising and melting all the Arctic sea ice, then they will probably remain relatively safe.  But that could never happen, right?\n\nIn the grand scheme of things, the extinction of these species probably doesn't mean an awful lot to humans directly.  Most people have probably never heard of a wisent, and probably never knew there was such as thing as a Caribbean monk seal.  However, they are indicators of a disturbing trend of extinctions, and near extinctions, mostly caused by humans.\n\nThose species directly hunted to extinction by man are easy enough to explain, and do not speak well of our ability to work and play nice with others, but it is the species which are indirectly affected by mankind, through habitat loss, pollution, introduced diseases and other factors that should sound a resounding wake-up call to humanity in general.  If we are making the planet uninhabitable for other species, maybe it isn't gonna be so nice for us if we keep it up, eh?\n\nThere is also the possibility that species that we think will have no effect on us if they go extinct are actually vital links in the ecosystem, and will have major impacts when they are gone.  The classic example is the sea otter (Enhydra lutra).  A cute, fuzzy little sea mammal that eats sea urchins and abalones.  It also has thick fur that was very valuable to fur traders.  However, once the little fuzzy sea otters were gone, the sea urchins boomed in population and started eating all the kelp.  Those kelp forests were important habitat for many fish species, and suddenly the fishing industry started hurting.  The sea otter turned out to be very important for the economic needs of a great many fishermen.\n\nIt's easy to become blase about 'oh well, it's just some dumb critter I've never heard of, so why should I care if it goes extinct?  most of the species that have ever existed have gone ext
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A dingo is a wild dog (Canis lupus dingo).It is commonly described as an Australian wild dog, but it did not originally come from there nor is it restricted to Australia. Modern dingos are found throughout Southeast Asia, in remainingl forest, and in mainland Australia, particularly in the north. They have features in common with both wolves and modern dogs, and are regarded as descendants of an early ancestor of modern dogs. The name dingo comes from the language of the Eora Aboriginal tribe, who were the original inhabitants of the Sydney area. The earliest dingo fossil was found in Vietnam. They can breed with normal dogs and produce offspring. They are believed to have come to Australia 5,000 years ago.\n\nI have never heard of a screaming dingo or exploding dingo.
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what a strange question... i dunno.. the only one i can think of are kangaroos and i love those!
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The Duck-billed platypus from Australia (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) \n\n- semi-aquatic mammal found in Eastern Australia.\n- member of the Order Monotremata (Egg-lying mammals)\n\n- venomous, male platypuses have a spur on the hind foot which delivers a painful poison.\n- a recognizable and iconic symbol of Australia; and is featured on the Australian twenty-cent coin.\n\nKingdom: Animalia\nPhylum: Chordata\nClass: Mammalia\nOrder: Monotremata\nFamily:Ornithorhynchidae
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Invest in a large plastic bubble. And book a flight to Australia, they have kangaroos there. Could be exciting.
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Probably about 90%; scientists just found a large area of land in Papua New Guinea (a large island north of Australia) that had never been searched by the natives before.  They found new bats and a new kangaroo, called a golden kangaroo.  There are likely places in the Sahara desert and Gobi desert (in Asia) that have never been touched by man, as well as much of the Australia outback, the north pole region (including Greenland) and Anarctica.  The person who said 100% is simply ignornant.
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No! and did you know.. they arent even really bears they are closer related to kangaroos than they are bears :) but yeah they are still around!
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Most of the previous answers include animals that are not actually extinct yet:  there are still tigers and lions and elephants and bears in India, although many of them are critically endangered.\n\nThere are only a few hundred Asian lions left in the wild, and they were killed off primarily through indiscriminate hunting.\n\nThere are several species that have gone extinct in India in historical times.\n\nThe Dang's Giant Squirrel in 1940, the Long-horned Indian Buffalo (1850), and the Burmese Sumatran rhinocerous (1990 - actually a subspecies that went extinct) are some of them.\n\nThere are also species which have been extirpated from India (they are no longer found in India, but still exist elsewhere in the world), such as the cheetah.\n\nThere were also members of what has been dubbed the Pleistocene Megafauna, that lived in India and went extinct along with many other species at the end of the last ice age, such as the Stegodons, which were once found out as far as the Indonesian islands.
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Animals who are on the verge of becoming extinct are endangered animals...this implies that immediate steps must be taken to protect such species of animals...
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Pandas are not extint, but endangered. Right now there are about 1,000 left in the wild. Before there were many people in China, Pandas lived through-out China. If you need more information please e-mail me at scarbro002005@yahoo.com
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Get to Australia and submit some job applications. Otherwise you'll probably be sitting around trying to figure out how to milk a kangaroo, which BTW, works better with cows, and they do have cows in Australia last I heard.
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I know in NSW the National Parks & Wildlife services are preserving habitats where sugar gliders live.\n\nIn Victoria, Parks & Wildlife is doing the same, there is also Land for Wildlife, which is Land donated to Wildlife Organisations for Wildlife, and this land is also protected under Wildlife Acts.  \n\nEveryone can do their part to help protect habitats for Sugar Gliders and other Wildlife by helping to preserve the older trees and vegetation in which they need to survive. Just because a tree is dead, does not mean u have to knock it down.  If it is safe enough to stay, then leave it as it provides homes for wildlife.  Hollow logs also provide safe homes for Gliders.\n\nA message to the first person that answered this question:  I am a wildlife carer and have been for 10 years, and I have to say, a possum cannot kill a cat,  its CATS that kill possums.
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they haven't found one yet, but they are still looking...Steve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter will be the first to know...watch the Animal Planet.  Alas, it is probably extinct, but there is still hope!!! The Ivory Billed Woodpecker has been recently spotted (Arkansas), confirmed and is now OFF the extinction list!!!        Very Awesome!!!
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I certainly wouldn't eat grubs, that's just revolting, but as for the kangaroo's testicle, I might have a go, I've never eaten one from any species and have no reason to believe it would taste any different from the rest of the animal's flesh. I could understand why a bloke wouldn't want to though.