Kangaroo

Kingdom: Anamalia

Characteristics that place it here

• all members are multicellular

• most of them ingest and digest food in an internal cavity

• rely on other organisms for nourishment

Phylum: Chordata

Characteristics that place it here

• have a notochord at some point of the life cycle

• at some point of the life cycle they have a pair of gill slits  or pouches used to obtain oxygen in a liquid enviormaent

• bialaterally simetrical bodies

Class: Mammalia

Characteristics that place it here

• concieve their young within the reproductive tract of the mother
• nourish young with milk produced by the mothers mammary glands
• are heterodonts
• are endothermic
• they have hair and sweat glands
• they have a complex nervous system
• they have large brains

Order: Diprotodontia

Characteristics that place it here

• they have three pairs of incisors in their upper jaws.
• They lack lower canines.
• most of them are herbavors

Family: Macropodidae

Characteristics that place it here

• Medium to large size
• long narrow hind feet
• tail is long and heavy
• they have big and strong toes.

Genus:

Species:kangaroo

Poem: Kangaroos jump on two legs

they do not lay eggs.

References: animal dyversityweb