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    Kangaroos
    Kangaroos
    Kangaroos
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    Kangaroos

    By Steve Challis

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    This book is about Kangaroos. It describes 12 widely differing species and has general information about the group as a whole. A number of myths are addressed. Illustrated with color pictures.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteve Challis
    Release dateMay 4, 2012
    ISBN9781476424286
    Kangaroos
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    Steve Challis

    I was born in 1951 in Aldridge in England, and migrated to Australia in 1964. I was a research technician at the Waite Agricultural Research institute of the University of Adelaide for 17 years. After that, my wife and I founded an aquarium and animal feed shop called Betta Trading in the Adelaide Hills town of Littlehampton, and we have now run it for over 20 years. I have written a number of science fiction books and some animal books. I am in the process of publishing on Smashwords my own books as well as some written by my Father, Richard F. Challis, and our cat, Luna Challis

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      Book preview

      Kangaroos - Steve Challis

      Kangaroos

      Steve Challis

      Copyright 2012 Steve Challis

      Published at Smashwords by Steve Challis

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Index

      The Word Kangaroo

      Are Kangaroos Threatened?

      Red Kangaroo

      The Boodie (Burrowing Bettong)

      The Eastern Grey Kangaroo

      Wallaroo

      The Euro

      The Western Grey Kangaroo

      The Yellow Footed Rock Wallaby

      Lumholtz’s Tree Kangaroo

      Musky Rat Kangaroo

      The Quokka

      The Spectacled Hare Wallaby

      The Tasmanian Pademelon

      Kangaroo Attacks

      Marsupial Intelligence

      Also published by Steve Challis at Smashwords

      Also published by Steve Challis at Smashwords

      Luna the Autobiography of a Super Cat by Luna Challis

      Joey in the Outback by Richard F. Challis

      Interludes by Richard F. Challis

      The Old Firm by Richard F. Challis

      Time and Chance by Richard F. Challis

      When Angels Travel by Richard F. Challis

      A Bad Boy by Steve Challis

      Ali the Peacemaker by Steve Challis

      ExtraSolar Menace by Steve Challis

      The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Steve Challis

      War and Space by Steve Challis

      The Local War by Steve Challis

      The Science of the Bad Boy Quadrilogy by Steve Challis

      The Word Kangaroo

      A Wrong Idea

      When I was a child in England, we were taught that when the Europeans of Captain Cook’s expedition saw Kangaroos, Sir Joseph Banks, the botanist, asked the native people what the name of that animal was.  The people of Australia did not understand English, so they said, in their own language, I do not understand you.

      The English heard the word as Kangaroo and thought that this referred to the animal they were asking about.  So the name Kangaroo stuck.

      A Gentleman and a Scholar

      However, Sir Joseph Banks was not only a botanist; he was also an accomplished linguist. To suggest that he would make such an

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