Yesterday was World Kangaroo Day - October 24 🦘
Resharing for #WorldKangarooDay 🦘
— Art History Animalia (@arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social) 2025-10-25T06:00:49.300Z
In celebration of #WorldKangarooDay 🦘, we present the first scientific description of "The Great Kanguroo, Macropus giganteus", from Shaw's The Naturalist's Miscellany (1790), which begins "the Kanguroo is a very anomalous and extraordinary quadruped". doi.org/10.5962/p.31... 🧪 📖 🌠#ILoveBHL
— Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary.bsky.social) 2025-10-24T11:31:13.685Z
Happy #WorldKangarooDay!
— Jack Ashby (@jackdashby.bsky.social) 2025-10-24T08:24:54.902Z
There are around 70 species of hopping #marsupial in Australia & New Guinea, filling a whole host of niches, in every terrestrial habitat.🦘
This is one of the smaller ones: Tasmanian pademelons are adorable forest #wallabies, readily spotted across #Tasmania.
#MammalWatching
Not quite a kangaroo:
Quokka (Setonix brachyurus): 56cm (21in). This Australian mammal is a small macropod about the size of a domestic cat. Like other marsupials in the macropod family (such as kangaroos and wallabies), the quokka is herbivorous and mainly nocturnal. #quokka #marsupial #macropod #nature #australia
— Wildlife (@worldwildlife.bsky.social) 2025-10-10T04:03:33.690Z
Quokka (Setonix brachyurus): 56cm (21in). This mammal is a small macropod about the size of a domestic cat. Like other marsupials in the macropod family (such as kangaroos and wallabies), the quokka is herbivorous and mainly nocturnal. Quokkas are native to Australia. #quokka #marsupial #australia
— Wildlife (@worldwildlife.bsky.social) 2025-08-29T01:50:11.244Z
Sad:
The Wondiwoi tree #kangaroo 🦘🌿 is the most endangered kangaroo alive due to #palmoil #deforestation 🪔🌴 and hunting across their range of #WestPapua. Take action to help these wide-eyed beauties #Boycottpalmoil 👎 #Boycott4Wildlife 🚫 @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-8yg
— Palm Oil Detectives | #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife (@palmoildetect.bsky.social) 2025-10-17T20:00:54.412Z
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