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BY: MH

    KINGDOM | PHYLUM | CLASS | ORDER | FAMILY | GENUS AND SPECIES

• Tree Kangaroo

• Kingdom - Animalia = it is a heterotrough, it is mobile, they have tissue, and they have organs and organ systems
• Phylum - Chordata = it has a backbone and a vertebral column 
• Class-Mammalia = They are warm-blooded, bare there offspring, make milk     
• Order-Diprotodontia = it is a marsupial, and bone digits two and three in legs are fused 
• Family - Macropodidae = found in Australia, New Guinea, and surrounding islands they also have powerful hind limbs
• Genus Species - Dendrolagus Goodfellowi = its genus and special body structure is unique to its self

FUN FACTS

Kangaroos can jump up to 25 feet that's like half a tennis court

Male kangaroo is called a boomer

Female kangaroos are called does

Newborn kangaroos are called joeys

A joey starts of as the size of a lima bean

To keep cool the kangaroo will lick its paws

A female kangaroo hops faster than a  male kangaroo

A joey will stay in the mothers pouch for six monthy