Kangaroos Kangaroos are interesting animals. Their back legs are strong, their tail is long and strong but their front legs are small. Kangaroos use their strong tails for balance when they jump. Kangaroos like places where there is a lot of green grass and some water. Some kangaroos climb and live in trees. Most kangaroos live in forests and fields. Sometimes people in Australia can find kangaroos in their yards and parks. Thanks to their large feet, some kangaroos can jump 9 meters in one jump and travel more than 48 kilometers per hour. There are four kinds of kangaroos; red kangaroos, eastern grey kangaroos, western grey kangaroos, and the antilopine kangaroo. You can only find kangaroos in Australia, but they developed millions of years ago from animals that lived in South America. The red kangaroo is the largest living kind of kangaroos in the world. They can live up to 23 years. Kangaroos live in groups. There are about 50 animals in a group. There are different animals that hunt and eat kangaroos. When they see enemies, all the kangaroos of the group kick them and sometimes bite. Kangaroos don't need nests. When kangaroos are born they are very small, about a size of a grape, and they live in a pouch on their mother's body. A pouch is a pocket of skin on the stomach of their mother in which baby kangaroos live. When babies are four months old they can leave their pouches for short trips to eat grass. At the age of ten months, they become big enough to live without their mothers and leave their pouches. A. Kangaroos have got ... 1) a short tail. 2) strong back and front legs. 3) short front legs. B. One jump of a kangaroo can be ... metres long. 1) eight 2) ten 3) nine C. The biggest kangaroos ... 1) are not grey. 2) live less than twenty years. 3) are from Australia and South America. D. Kangaroos live in groups because ... 1) they need to build nests. 2) it is easy to protect themselves. 3) they can hunt other animals. E. Baby kangaroos leave their mothers and live on their own when they are ... 1) as big as a grape. 2) 4 months old. 3) 10 months old.