Sentences with word «macropod»

Dawson and her colleagues from Murdoch University in Australia looked at 16 species of macropod and examined the way each part of their body moved as they walked on four (or five) legs.

«In open country fast hopping is required for predator avoidance,» he says — so macropods living there developed very long back legs to increase their hopping speeds.

Although macropods in these environments still have relatively long back legs, they are short enough to allow the animals to get around on four legs without their tail.

Dawson's work also, for the first time, conclusively establishes that smaller macropods — those Australian animals that look like different sized kangaroos — don't have a fifth leg.

In the distance, we could see the park's three commonest macropods — the red kangaroo, the western gray kangaroo, and the common wallaroo or euro — and I was reminded of Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater, an enclosed sanctuary for threatened species.

Arkaba's wildlife is now prolific with Australia's three largest macropods (Red Kangaroo, Western Grey Kangaroo and Common Wallaroo) all regular sightings.

To the Buckaringa Gorge Sanctuary to see the exquisite Yellow - footed Rock Wallaby and other macropods.

Dingoes suppress the abundances of macropods (more than 15 kg) and the smaller red fox (Vulpes vulpes)(3.5 — 8 kg)[20].

So those macropods that grew big back legs evolved to use their tail to help them crawl on four legs — creating a fifth leg.

Relatively little is known about the dingo's ecological role in the forests of southeastern Australia, although there is evidence that they can suppress the populations of macropods and red foxes [18,19].

A number of macropods are found in the Whitsundays.