What lives in the kangaroo's habitat?

Answer 1

This depends on the type of kangaroo. Kangaroos are found all over the Australian continent, but their exact location depends on the species, of which there are over 60 in Australia.

They are often found in bushland and woodland, where they may share their habitat with wombats, a variety of possums and gliders, quolls, platypuses (where there are clear running waterways), echidnas, phascogales, dunnarts, planigales, antechinuses, bandicoots and, in Tasmania, Tasmanian devils. Birds in this type of habitat may include kookaburras, lyrebirds, bowerbirds, friar birds, brush turkeys, a variety of cockatoos, lorikeets and rosellas. Reptiles may include carpet pythons, brown snakes, red bellied black snakes, goannas, various members of the dragon lizard family, skink lizards and native geckos.

Larger kangaroos do not live in the desert, as the food is too scarce. However, smaller, omnivorous varieties of the kangaroo family (often not recognised as kangaroos) do live in burrows in the desert and gain all their moisture needs from the insects and larvae they eat. Other animals in this habitat may include bilbies, some species of dunnarts and planigales, ningauis, mulgara and marsupial moles. common birds in this habitat are wedge-tailed eagles and budgerigars.

These are just some examples of kangaroo habitats and animals that live within them.