{"id":536532,"date":"2010-04-21T05:23:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T09:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds2.feedburner.com:\/\/f33eb9e048a72c53506e426952bde2e4"},"modified":"2010-04-21T05:23:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T09:23:38","slug":"how-many-species-of-kangaroo-and-wallaby-are-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/536532","title":{"rendered":"How Many Species Of Kangaroo And Wallaby Are There?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the difference between a wallaby and a kangaroo?When my father was stationed in New Guinea during World War II, he was amused by wallabies hopping through the soldiers&#8217; camp. He told me that the only difference between a wallaby and a kangaroo is foot size.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q9\/q91\/q916\/q9168\/q916859_112100_648_4426946928_078b9679aa.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/css\/common\/cc.png\" style=\"vertical-align:text-bottom;width:16px;height:16px;border:0;\" title=\"Creative Commons License\"\/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/41353201@N07\/\" >DJ-Dwayne<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>wallaby<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kangaroos have feet that are longer than 10 inches; and any kangaroo with feet smaller than that is a wallaby. In fact, wallabies are sometimes referred to as lesser kangaroos.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q9\/q91\/q916\/q9168\/q916859_112100_720_2682358630_879f3f98d3.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/css\/common\/cc.png\" style=\"vertical-align:text-bottom;width:16px;height:16px;border:0;\" title=\"Creative Commons License\"\/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/15807371@N00\/\" >spaceodissey<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Kangaroos<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are more than 50 species of wallabies and kangaroos, and they vary in size from palm-sized to the giant red kangaroo, which stands more than 6 feet tall. The six largest species of these marsupials are referred to as kangaroos.<\/p>\n<p>Kangaroos and wallabies belong to the family Macropodidae, which means &#8220;big feet&#8221; in Latin. Kangaroos, wallabies, wallaroos, quokkas, pademelons, potoroos, rat-kangaroos, honey possums, and tree kangaroos are all macropods.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Blurtit\/~4\/Y3j3KpmNeUw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the difference between a wallaby and a kangaroo?When my father was stationed in New Guinea during World War II, he was amused by wallabies hopping through the soldiers&#8217; camp. He told me that the only difference between a wallaby and a kangaroo is foot size. DJ-Dwayne wallaby Kangaroos have feet that are longer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}