The young kangarooof two or three months old, makes a tolerable substitute for jugged hare, and is frequently on the tables of the settlers.
The flesh of the kangaroo is literally good, for nothing: the tail makes very good soup, but the carcass of the full-grown animal is otherwise of no value to the European, though the native contrives to make an occasional meal of it.
The notion, that a kangaroo makes use of his tail in leaping, is a mistaken one.
As population advances up the country, the kangaroo retires.
Dipodomys ordii= Ord's Kangaroo Rat This species has a restricted geographic distribution in Tamaulipas, although three subspecies occur in the state; two of them occur in the extreme northeast and the other in the far west.
An analysis of intraspecific variation in the kangaroo rat Dipodomys merriami.
A couple of savage-looking kangaroo dogs and a collie of suspicious aspect walked forward from the massive hut-door, which Lance noticed was carefully secured by a padlock.
Too strange and excited to converse himself, he could but sit in a rude but substantial chair, fashioned out of a beer-barrel and covered with a kangaroo skin, and look silently from one to the other.
Then there were flying squirrels, and kangaroo rats, gentle and trustful, and a badger whose temper was short but whose nature was fundamentally friendly.
Among savage hunters it is often necessary for several to combine to catch big game; thus Australians hunt the kangaroo in bands of several dozen individuals; the Eskimo gather quite a flotilla of kayaks for whale-fishing.
Over the Town Hall a flag flies, with the proud motto "Sic fortis Hobartia crevit," and the arms of the city, supported by a kangaroo and an emu.
Then they imitated the bounds of the Kangaroo when pursued, but of dancing, or even posturing, in our sense of the word, there was none.
It is calculated that one kangaroo eats as much grass and consumes as much food generally as do five sheep, and consequently he is looked upon as an enemy, to be hunted with the one idea of exterminating him altogether.
The kangaroo is very prolific in its wild state, and would, if allowed to multiply undisturbed, soon drive the sheep from their feeding-grounds.
It is in this neighborhood that one finds the kangaroo in his wild state; but a good local guide is necessary to insure success in the search for these animals.
The kangaroo has a wonderfully expressive face, more than half human, with a head and large plaintive eyes quite like those of a fawn of the red-deer species.
The only game of any size was the kangaroo and a few species of birds.
If the chase occurs in a wood where there are numerous obstacles, like heavy logs, the kangaroo is safe, since he can surmount all such impediments without diminution of speed.
We did not chance to see any specimens of that curious animal the kangaroo while we were in Queensland, but this marsupial is represented to be more numerous and more of a pest here than in any other part of the country.
The sharp claws of the short fore-feet are powerful weapons, and if brought to bay by the dogs when hunted, the male kangaroo will sometimes turn upon his pursuers and with his claws disembowel the largest dog.
These last are only two in number, a strong presumptive proof, had we no other evidence, that the kangaroo brings forth rarely more than one at a birth.
When young the kangaroo eats tender and well flavoured, tasting like veal, but the old ones are more tough and stringy than bullbeef.
Of the natural history of the kangaroo we are still very ignorant.
The big "jumping hare" of South Africa has much the appearance of a kangaroo with a squirrellike tail; and a genus of exquisitely dressed mice in our sandy Southwest are called "kangaroo" mice.
Dawn is red, not because (as in Australia) she wears a red kangaroo cloak, but because she competed in this race with red cows for her coursers.
In the same way a Ballarat man of the Kangaroo stock in Australia recognises a relative in a Mount Gambier man who is also a Kangaroo.
The Australian Dawn, with her present of a red kangaroo skin, was not more lightly won than the chaste Selene.
She has a lover among the dead, who has presented her with a red kangaroo skin, and in this she appears at her rising.
The rock wallabies again have short tarsi of the hind legs, with a long pliable tail for climbing, like that of the tree kangaroo of New Guinea, or that of the jerboa.
Kangaroo Island, at the entrance of St Vincent Gulf, is one of the largest islands on the Australian coast, measuring 80 m.
The kangaroo and most of its congeners show an extraordinary disproportion of the hind limbs to the fore part of the body.
The kangaroo (Macropus) lives in droves in the open grassy plains.
Fossil bones of extinctkangaroo species are met with; these kangaroos must have been of enormous size, twice or thrice that of any species now living.
Their nets, made by women, either of the tendons of animals or the fibres of plants, will catch and hold the kangaroo or the emu, or the very large fish of Australian rivers.
A fire was blazing on the hearth, with a large damper baking under the ashes, and a huge teapot of tea was steaming away on a table set out for a meal; while a joint of a kangaroo was among the good things which gladdened our eyes.
They brought us some sacks full of dry grass, which they spread on the floor, with some kangaroo skins to cover us; in those days sheep skins were rare.
We feasted on our kangaroo flesh, and were able to repay him with a portion of it.
Jacob told us that he had seen many a dog killed when rushing in on a kangaroo standing at bay, by being ripped up, and that John had had a narrow escape.
The flesh of the tame Kangaroo is very good, but that of the wild animal is still better.
The genus comprehends several species of very different dimensions: as, the Great Kangaroo, already mentioned; the Woolly or Red Kangaroo (M.
A word of allusion must now be permitted to the Petrogale, a genus of the Kangaroo family, described by Dr.
It should be noticed that the kangaroonever folds his tail between his legs, which, I may add, are extraordinarily strong.
Their attire is remarkable for its simplicity: a kangaroo skin flung over the right shoulder!
Amongst the ranges we found kangaroo grass as high as our shoulders, and on the plains the spear grass up to our knees.
The worst part serves for the dogs, of which we have three--a sheep dog, and two kangaroo dogs.
Plenty of good dry feed; various shrubs; salt bushes, including cotton bush and some coarsekangaroo grass; water in the hollows on the stony pavement.
One called "the Kangaroo team" was driven by John Mills.
A tame kangaroo would have its forefeet fitted with boxing-gloves.
There are very many animals which may be grouped as kangaroos, from the tiny kangaroo rat, about the size of an English water-rat, to the huge red kangaroo, which is over six feet high and about the weight of a sucking calf.
The kangaroo and wallaby provide nowadays a delicious soup (made from the tails of the animals), but the flesh of their bodies is tough and dark and rank.
There would be tigers and elephants in Australia and emus in Asia, and thekangaroo and other marsupials would probably have disappeared.
When an Australian cricket team succeeds in vanquishing in a Test Match an English one (which happens now and again), the comic papers may be always expected to print a picture of a lion looking sad and sorry, and a kangaroo proudly elate.
The kangaroo is harmless and inoffensive as a rule, but it can inflict a dangerous kick with its hindlegs, and when pursued by dogs or men and cornered, the "old man" kangaroo will sometimes fight for its life.
One boxing kangaroo I had a bout with was quite a clever pugilist.
Kangaroo furs are also of value for rugs and overcoats.
The skin of the kangaroo provides a soft and pliant leather which is excellent for shoes.
The kangaroo is always taken as a type of Australian animal life.
The early settlers ate kangaroo flesh gladly, but they were not able to get enough of it to keep them in meat.
However, chopped up into a fine sausage-meat, with half its weight of fat bacon, kangaroo flesh is just eatable.
If the kangaroo be very heavy, the hind quarters only are carried, but the skin being of some value, it is not needlessly destroyed.
The brush kangaroo is easily killed by the dogs; a grip in the throat or loins usually suffices.
Presently a sharp bark gave the signal of game started, and the next moment we catch a glimpse of the kangaroo in mid air, as he bounds down the declivity in a succession of leaps such as the kangaroos only can accomplish.
The kangaroo dog never mangles his prey although fond of the blood, with a portion of which he is always rewarded.
The flesh of the kangaroo resembles in taste and appearance that of the hare, though drier and inferior in flavor when roasted.
It is rarely, except when on horseback, that one has the good fortune to be in at the death, or to see the kangaroo pulled down.
The kangaroo is a graceful animal, but appears to most advantage when only the upper part of his body is seen.
Without making special investigations through a study of behavior or other special methods, one can speak in only general terms regarding what appear to be the special sense developments of kangaroo rats.
It may be noted that an intermediate condition between the kangaroo rats and the majority of rodents in respect to this character is to be found in the pocket mice (Perognathus), which belong to the same family.
Droppings of the kit fox show an abundance of bones of small mammals of kangaroo rat size, among them those of spectabilis.
The kangaroo rat was just outside the entrance of one of its burrows, and though moving about more or less restlessly at first showed little fear, and kept up the thumping or drumming at intervals.
Kangaroo rats may be separated with ease from all other mammals; the long tail and short and weak fore feet separate them from the pocket gophers; the white hip-stripe distinguishes them from the pocket mice.
If food stores are inadequate at such a time the kangaroorats must perish in considerable numbers.
This must have been exceptionally early for young, since of a number of adult kangaroo rats taken during the first week of January none have been found to be breeding.
Scatter poison, when the natural food of the kangaroorat is scarce, on clean hard places near the holes, 1 quart to 50 holes.
The banner-tailed kangaroo rat shows a marked adaptability to different foods available in the neighborhood of its burrows.
Rehabilitation of a depleted range after severe drought and consequent close grazing and trampling is retarded by the heavy toll of seed taken by the kangaroo rats.
Saying this, he made a circuit through the thick forest, so as to get the tree between himself and the branch on which the kangaroo was sitting.
The hunters soon returned, bringing with them a tree kangaroo and a cuscus, with several large bats.
I then remembered reading of a tree kangaroo which is supplied with powerful claws on the fore-feet.
Macco, hanging the spear about his neck, climbed up a neighbouring tree, which was united to the one on which the kangaroo was sitting by a strong band of ratan.
It had a hairy tail, much finer than the ordinary kangaroo, and we observed as it went over the ground that it had not used it as a support, as the Australian kangaroo does.
No, no," I shouted; "bring us a piece of kangaroo or the other animal.
The moment the kangaroo stopped eating, he drew back and remained still as death.
Some of them had two necklaces, made of white beads or kangaroo teeth, which looked well on their dark glossy skins.
She then made signs to us to eat as much as we could, putting some kangaroo meat and sago-cakes before us.
Thus did the ball break up, every kangaroo carrying off its partner in a different direction.
The kangaroo started back, although it saw nothing, and of course said nothing.
Those that were noticed, were made of the red kangaroo skin.
Although we had left the immediate spot at which the kangaroo flies (cabarus) seemed to be collected, I did not expect that we should have got rid of them so completely as we did.
Our camp was infested by the kangaroo fly, which settled upon us in thousands.
The photograph given above shows Australian aborigines performing the kangaroo dance, which is a modified exhibition of one of their ancient ceremonies.
All they do is to crawl about, stamping and gesticulating, whilst the man dressed as a kangaroo goes backwards and forwards and up and down the line with a sort of high-stepping action.
Here she let go my hands, and sobbed and cried as if she was a child again, much as I remember her doing one day when my kangaroo dog killed her favourite cat.
Father used to set snares for the brush kangaroo and the bandicoots, like he'd been used to do for the hares in the old country.
Not a kangaroorat could hop across from one scrub to another if there was the least suspicion upon him without being blocked or run into.
When she was a little raised-like you'd see a pink flush come on her cheeks like a peach blossom in September, and her eyes had a bright startled look like a doe kangaroo when she jumps up and looks round.
But the cat's got four legs to balance on and the kangaroo only two.
Indeed, the boxing kangaroo should properly wear two pairs of gloves, and the bigger and softer pair should go upon his hind feet.
I incline to the first theory, partly because the kangaroo is well furnished as regards quality of parts, although they are oddly assorted, and partly because to make an indecisive selection would be just in accord with his character.
The boxing kangaroo has made a very loud boom indeed, and has done something to earn the title of "boomer.
The kangaroo will never become clever of himself, but perhaps the showman may teach him.
There is a superstition that once, in distant ages, a kangaroo had an idea, and if you closely observe a kangaroo who is left to himself, you may see something in that superstition.
But he can jump; and the disconsolate grasshopper, whose hind-leg copyright the kangaroo has infringed, is far behind the record.
One would imagine that in the period which has elapsed since the Creation the feeblest-minded of animals would have had time to arrive at some final choice in the matter of coat-colour; but the kangaroo hasn't.
Indeed, the young kangaroo would fare ill without this retreat, because any other cradle the mother, being a kangaroo, would probably forget all about, and lose.
Only the male kangaroouses this cosmetic, and where he finds it and how he keeps it is a mystery; he doesn't put it on his face--he devotes it entirely to the complexion of his chest and stomach.
As it is, the kangaroo has not so much as added a patent clasp.
