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unusual facts about Kangaroos


KangaRoos

Notables included Walter Payton, O.J. Anderson, William (the Fridge) Perry (football), Ozzie Smith, Vince Coleman and Ron Darling (baseball), and Kenyan track stars (running).


1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain

Whiticker, Alan(2004) Captaining the Kangaroos, New Holland, Sydney

Alastair Clarkson

Clarkson was 19 and at the end of his first season with North Melbourne when the Kangaroos met Carlton in October, 1987 in the notorious Battle Of Britain an exhibition match at The Oval in London .

Australia national rugby team

Australia national rugby league team, often nicknamed the Kangaroos, administered by Australian Rugby League.

Australian rules football in Germany

The Munich Kangaroos were founded in Munich by Australian expats in the mid-1990s, the only German club except Frankfurt formed before the year 2000.

Bohemians 1905

Following the tour, the club was awarded two live kangaroos, which they donated to the Prague Zoo.

Bylong Valley

Traveling in this scenic valley reveals its cultural heritage as well as springing up surprises like sightings of wombats, wallabies and kangaroos—sometimes in front of your car!

Canada Women's Australian Football League

In 2004, the Toronto-based Etobicoke Kangaroos held footy development clinics at two local girls’ schools; Bishop Strachan and St. Clement's School.

Chicken wing tackle

It became a controversy after Kangaroos' skipper Brent Harvey was chicken winged in 2009 during an Australian football match and suffered a dislocated elbow that caused him to miss months of play.

Corowa

John Longmire is a retired Australian rules football player (North Melbourne Kangaroos), now coach (Sydney Swans) from Corowa

Cristiane

Early 2013 it was announced that Cristiane will join the Goyang Daekyo Noonnoppi WFC (Daekyo Kangaroos) in South Korea´s WK-League.

Eden Park Kangaroo Cull

The cull has met with opposition from local residents, Whittlesea Council and members of the Australian Society for Kangaroos with protests and 24 hour vigils outside the Eden Park property.

Israel Folau

In October 2008, Folau was chosen to play for the Kangaroos in the 2008 Rugby League World Cup.

James Brayshaw

He is the son of former Western Australian cricketer and Australian rules footballer Ian Brayshaw, and the brother of Mark Brayshaw, a former Kangaroos AFL player.

Junior Kangaroos

They are commonly known as the Junior Kangaroos, after the native marsupial of that name.

Kangaroo industry

Of the 48 species of macropods (kangaroos) in Australia, only six can be commercially harvested.

To this end the University of New South Wales has implemented a major new project aimed at encouraging the development of farm enterprises based on using native plants and animals and specifically kangaroos.

Macropod

The marsupial suborder Macropodiformes, which includes kangaroos, wallabies and allies, bettongs, potoroos, and rat kangaroos

The marsupial family Macropodidae, which includes kangaroos, wallabies, tree-kangaroos, pademelons, and several others

Mileura Station

By 1931 approximately 13,000 kangaroos had been shot at Mileura station over the course of the year, prompting the manager, Geoffrey Henry Walsh, to write to the government asking for the royalty for a kangaroos shot to be waived.

Procoptodon

Fossils of giant short-faced kangaroos have been found at the Naracoorte World Heritage fossil deposits in South Australia, Lake Menindee in New South Wales, Darling Downs in Queensland, and at many other sites.

Stade de la Méditerranée

In Mal Meninga's last match, 8,000 people saw the Kangaroos run out 74-0 winners.

Sten Bergman

The book also includes his observations of interesting plants and animals, including the tree kangaroos, forest turkeys, flame-coloured lianas, Bauhinia and flying beetles.

Sustainable wildlife enterprises

The cooperative owns and operates chiller boxes, and takes kangaroos from harvester properties of landholder members.

The First Kangaroos

The First Kangaroos drew complaints from the Granddaughter of British rugby league legend Albert Goldthorpe for its villainous depiction of him.


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