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Kangaroo :3

Eastern Grey Kangaroo
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Eastern Grey Kangaroo
Conservation status: Least concern (LR/lc)


Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Infraclass: Marsupialia

Family: Macropodidae

Genus: Macropus

Species: M. giganteus


Binomial name
Macropus giganteus
Shaw, 1790
Southern and eastern Australia support a population of several million Eastern Grey Kangaroos. The scientific name, Macropus giganteus is misleading, as while a big Eastern Grey male weighs around 66 kg and stands almost 2 m tall, the Red Kangaroo of the semi-arid inland is bigger still.

Eastern Greys are easy to recognise: their soft grey coat is distinctive, and they are usually found in moister, more fertile areas than the Red. Alternative names for the species include Great Grey Kangaroo and Forester.


Although the Red is better known by reputation, the Eastern Grey is the species most commonly seen in the flesh: few Australians visit the arid interior of the continent, while many live in and around the major cities of the south and east coast, from where it is usually only a short drive to the remaining pockets of near-city bushland where roos can be found without much difficulty. They prefer open grassland with areas of bush for daytime shelter. Like all kangaroos, they are mainly nocturnal and crepuscular, and are mostly seen early in the morning, or as the light starts to fade in the evening.

In more remote areas, Eastern Greys occur in great numbers and if left unchecked reach plague proportions. From time to time shooters are employed to reduce their numbers, almost always to the accompaniment of a public outcry. Given the very limited amount of fodder in dry years, however, the only other choice is starvation.

It is often said that kangaroo populations have increased significantly since the European colonisation of Australia because of the increased areas of grassland (as opposed to forest), the reduction in Dingo numbers, and the availability of artificial watering holes. At least so far as Eastern Greys are concerned, the scientific evidence suggests otherwise: the current population is to be measured in tens of millions, but the estimated pre-European population is thought to have been closer to hundreds of millions.

While Eastern Greys remain common, there are vast areas of country from which they have been exterminated (in general, they avoid humans), and most of the more fertile districts now carry crops or exotic pasture grasses which kangaroos tend not to eat. (One of the easiest ways to find kangaroos is to look for patches of remnant native grassland.)

Blue Iguanas & Common Green Iguanas, the differences

Common Iguanas (Iguana iguana), also known as Green Iguanas, have escaped from the domestic pet trade on Grand Cayman, and are breeding in the wild throughout the western districts of the island. They are native to Central and South America, where they evolved in the presence of many predators. Common Iguanas therefore have instinctive strategies to avoid being eaten by cats and dogs, and they are thriving in suburban areas where Blue Iguanas would not stand a chance.

Common Iguanas are now numerous and sighted often, while the critically endangered Blues are almost never seen outside protected areas. More and more, people are beginning to mistakenly assume the Common Iguana actually IS the Cayman's own Blue Iguana!

The two species are very different, and can not breed together. They don't even speak the same "language" - when a Blue Iguana threatens a Common Iguana by head-bobbing, the Common Iguana does not understand. Size for size, the Blue Iguana is much stronger and much more aggressive.

To tell them apart, look at these pictures, and note these characteristics:


Common Iguana has spines on the dewlap (the skin flap under the chin), The Blues never have spines here.
Common Iguanas have a very long, whip-like tail, with vivid black bands. Blues have a thicker tail, without obvious bands.
Common Iguanas have a large circular scale, like a shield, on the cheek beneath the ear. Blues have their cheeks covered with cone-shaped, pointed scales when they are old, and never have a large circular one.

Blue Iguana's Relatives

The Blue Iguana is one of the West Indian Rock Iguanas, which are all classified in the genus Cyclura. Uniquely different species of Cyclura are found from the Virgin Islands through the Greater Antilles to the Bahamas.

The most ancient Rock Iguana is Cyclura pinguis, which survives on Anegada. Like the Blue Iguana, it is now critically endangered. It was the ancestor to this iguana which dispersed first from the Puerto Rico bank to Hispaniola, then onwards to the north and western islands, which has since diversified on different islands into 9 species and several additional subspecies.

The Blue Iguana evolved more recently from ancestors of its nearest relative, the Cuban Iguana (Cyclura nubila). Cuban Iguana ancestors also made the crossing to Little Cayman and Cayman Brac, where they evolved into a unique subspecies, Cyclura nubila caymanensis, and to the southern Bahamas where they evolved into a new species, Cyclura cychlura.

The Blue Iguana was long thought to be another subspecies of the Cuban Iguana, and but recent genetic evidence has led to a revision, and the Blue Iguana is now considered a unique species, Cyclura lewisi. If Cyclura lewisi and Cyclura nubila caymanensis are artificially brought into contact, they can still breed and produce fertile offspring. Naturally, they have always been separated by at least 67 miles of open ocean.

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