He's absolute monarch as far as the human inhabitants are concerned, but the kangaroos control Superior as a piece of geography.
Oh, just crazy stuff--like the kangaroos didn't like it Down Under any more and were coming up here because it was safer.
Complete with kangaroos and assorted wallabies, if you want them.
But, my friends, these are not the cute and harmless kangaroos that abound in the land of our friendly ally, Australia.
I feel as if part of the Zoo had been let loose,' said Lady Bridget when again there bounded along in the near distance a pair of kangaroos with a little Joey kangaroo taking a lesson in locomotion behind its parents.
Once, a company of kangaroos sitting up with fore paws drooping and a baby marsupial poking its head out of the pouch of one of the does.
The sight of the kangaroos in the Bush brought a particular rhyme of her childhood to her mind.
Kangaroos were numerous among these hills, but we did not succeed in shooting any; they appear to be similar to those seen on the plains near the Sherlock.
The common flies are very troublesome; very few birds, and nokangaroos have been seen during the last few days' journey.
Kangaroos are more numerous than in any other part of Australia yet visited by the Expedition, and as many as twelve or fifteen have been seen each day.
Why, when those controversies were started in the 'Bulletin' about the kangaroos and other things, I thought I knew something about the bush.
As he spoke, two or three kangaroos and several wallabies were seen in the distance making their escape into the open.
They had not gone far before a large kangaroo was sighted--an "old man," as the big kangaroos are called by the settlers.
A pair of kangaroos saw I, burumbla nangurringbla.
We can always make tucker shootin' kangaroos and emus for their skins; an' if any man wants a cheque bad, for a spell or anything, he can always go shearing inside country.
The Kangaroosvary in size, some being, when erect, as tall as a Man, while others are not so large as a Rabbit.
In the Tree Kangaroos of New Guinea, for instance, the tail is very bushy, and the fore-legs almost as long as the hind ones.
In the Kangaroo tribe there were real leaping kangaroos as well as men-kangaroos.
The moment we had crossed, the kangaroos moved off.
A low and fertile flat meadow there skirted the river; and, at the extremity of the flat, hills gradually arose with a gentle slope, covered with verdure, upon which an immense herd of kangaroos were feeding.
On our way back, soon afterwards, and while passing through a forest, the trees of which grew rather thicker than usual, we saw in an open glade beyond it three of the kangaroos so coveted by us.
It was a kangaroo of tolerable size; but, unlike the large kangaroos we had before seen, it went leaping away up the hill with as much ease as they make their way along the plain.
Still, we were sorely tried when we missed twokangaroos which we made sure of hitting.
It was very fat, as were the kangarooswhich they found in the interior; differing in that point very widely from any kangaroos which had been before seen; not a particle of fat having ever been found on one of them.
The rocky and barren ground was exchanged for a flat country and beautiful meadows, furnishing pasture for the kangaroos and emus, several of which they saw.
In the course of the day they saw many kangaroos and several emus; and fell in with a party of natives, one of whom engaged to accompany them, on condition of their halting for that night where they then were.
Of the six Lascars who had been left with the property, one had died; the other five were in health, and had lived tolerably well, killing upon a neighbouring island as many kangaroos and birds as they could use.
Notwithstanding the narrow limits of the island, abundance of small kangaroos were found to inhabit its brushy parts; but so many had been destroyed by the people of the Sydney Cove, that they had now become scarce.
The island was named on account of the quantity of kangaroos seen and shot upon it; for a supply of fresh meat was very welcome after four months of salt pork.
I saw it quite plain, and it was one of those kangaroos as big as a man.
At last, after scanning the distant horizon for hours, seeing nothing but a few kangaroos which looked like black fellows in the distance, and a couple of emus stalking slowly across the plain, Norman could bear it no longer.
I wish, though, there were some other wild beasts here beside kangaroos and dingoes.
The mother carries her young in a pouch, as seen in the picture, and when the babykangaroos are frightened they run at once into their mother's pouch for safety, like any other babies running to their mother.
There are elephants stretching their noses quite long; And reindeer and elks with their antlers so strong, And queer kangaroos all the others amid, With their dear little babies in pockets well hid.
It was very good of you," said the Kangaroo gratefully, "and it is not the first time you have savedKangaroos by your cleverness.
Now, to human beings, all joey Kangaroos look alike, but amongst Kangaroos there are no two the same, and Dot's Kangaroo at once recognised in the little Joey her own baby Kangaroo.
How Dot explained the wonderful power of the berries of understanding, and how she told the Kangaroosall that her parents wanted her to say on their behalf, and what kind things the Kangaroo said in return.
The rough surface of the stone shone with a beautiful polish like a looking glass, for the rock had been rubbed for thousands of years by the soft feet and tails of millions of Kangaroos: kangaroos that had hopped down that way to get water.
We kangaroos have gone this way ever since Australia began to have kangaroos.
For the time all enmities between them seemed forgotten; kangaroos and dingoes, snakes and rats and opossums, rushed along side by side in the friendliness of a great common danger.
Kangaroos and wallabies progressing by great leaps; emus flapping their inefficient wings to help them in their flight; bush rats and smaller creatures scuttling along by the side of wriggling snakes and currish dingoes.
Crowds of animals, kangaroos and wallabies principally, were congregated at the muddy margins to drink at the fast-failing supply.
Away went the two kangaroosat breakneck speed, leaping from twelve to fifteen feet at a time.
But the horses were not particularly good ones, and with their long, swift leaps the kangaroos got safely away.
We had water-bags made out of the skins of kangaroos and wallabies, and would camp wherever possible close to a native well, where we knew food was to be found in plenty.
Soon after this, I noticed that Yamba grew a little anxious, and she explained that as we had not come across any kangaroos lately, nor any blacks, it was evident that the wet season was coming on.
There were plenty of kangaroos and emus about, as well as turkeys; these latter provided us with an unwonted dish, to say nothing of their delicious eggs.
Kangaroos and other animals were seldom or never found there: they abounded usually in the more scrubby country.
Saw three emus today and a few turkeys; kangaroos were also seen for the last two days; the strong running river that we crossed at three and three-quarter miles from camp this morning I have called the McKay after G.
The palæotherium and the deinoceras, the mastodon and the mammoth, the huge giraffes and antelopes of sunnier times, succeed to the ancestral kangaroos and wombats of the secondary strata.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kangaroos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
