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wallaroo

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wallaroo: see kangaroo kangaroo, name for a variety of hopping marsupials, or pouched mammals, of the family Macropodidae, found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. The term is applied especially to the large kangaroos of the genus Macropus.
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wallaroo

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One of the four largest species of kangaroo. The wallaroo (Macropus robustus) is smaller and stockier than the other three species (also in the genus Macropus); its colour varies from dark gray to pinkish brown. It lives in rocky country throughout Australia except in Victoria.


wallaroo
a large stocky Australian kangaroo, Macropus (or Osphranter) robustus, of rocky regions


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You may spot an ungainly goanna lizard or a wallaroo (like a big wallaby and, bizarrely, called a euro in some parts of Australia).
Currently four species are harvested on the mainland; the red kangaroo, eastern and western grey kangaroos and the common wallaroo.
gt;Leo Smith SHOP > GOTTA HAVE IT TIP OF THE HAT Wallaroo Hat Co.
 
 
 
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