baby, but in rocky terrain essentially more skillfully than the mountain-kangaroos is the rock-kangaroos. Because of its speed and skillfulness, one calls it also Australia's" "chamois.
Shape Upright sedentary, they reach a vertex-height of 50-80 cm. They are called "skirt-wallabies" in Australia.
The long tail is equally thick and round as far as to the top from the root. it has severe similarity with the tail of the tree-kangaroos, only it carries with the rock-kangaroos at the end of brush-similarly extended hair. it also rarely becomes use as support here but serves more than Balancierorgan. With the locomotion from the ground, it is always raised carried. The movements of the big ears show continuous attention.
Way of life During the day, rock-kangaroos usually sleep in caves or under rock-overhangs and emerge mainly in the morning and twilight in order to eat grass, herbs and foliage. They straighten up again and again on that occasion and secure. With danger, they clap alarm with the rear-feet like rabbits, and already, they jump skillful and fast over rocks and stone-slagheaps from it. its locomotion works little elegantly in the level because of its bent down posture. In the rocky terrain, they are in its element on the other hand. They hurl wide crevices light-footed over 4 m away and escape from its persecutors in a flash.
With altogether 10 types, they live in the rocky areas of Australia and Tasmania. Because its meat and its fur are very sought-after, they become bejagt strongly. Most of the types of the rock-kangaroos are rare and possibly threaten from the extinction.
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