Red Kangaroo in Central Australia
The red kangaroo is at the heart of Australia''s ecological identity. It is Australia''s largest terrestrial land mammal, the largest extant marsupial, and the only kangaroo truly restricted to Australia''s arid interior. Almost nothing was known about the ecology of the red kangaroo when Alan Newsome began to study it in 1957. He discovered how droughts affect reproduction, why red kangaroos favo...
The red kangaroo is at the heart of Australia''s ecological identity. It is Australia''s largest terrestrial land mammal, the largest extant marsupial, and the only kangaroo truly restricted to Australia''s arid interior. Almost nothing was known about the ecology of the red kangaroo when Alan Newsome began to study it in 1957. He discovered how droughts affect reproduction, why red kangaroos favo...
