Kangaroos

Ayliffe, L.K. and Chivas, A.R. 1990 Oxygen isotope composition of the bone phosphate of Australian kangaroos potential as a palaeoenvironmental recorder. Geochimica et Cosmochim-icaActa 54 2603-2609. 

Pate, F.D., Anson, T.J. (2007). Stable nitrogen isotope values in arid-land kangaroos correlated with mean annual rainfall potential as a palaeoclimatic indicator. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Vol. 18, 317-326. 

Coulson G. and Croft D. (1981). Flehmen in Kangaroos. Aust Mammal 4, 139-140. 

In Figure 3.3, most of the animals that live in hot climates (lions, tigers, elephants, giraffes, wallabies, kangaroos) are close to each other on the map. This clustering of animals from warm environments has occurred even though the temperature of the environment in which the animals live is not a characteristic of the animals themselves, so it did not form part of the input data. 

Mead, R.J., D.L. Moulden, and L.E. Twigg. 1985a. Significance of sulfhydryl compounds in the manifestation of fluoroacetate toxicity to the rat, brush-tailed possum, woylie and western grey kangaroo. Austral. Jour. Biol. Sci. 38 139-149. 

Finally, we have other water-insoluble proteins that constitute such structures as skin, hair, the wool of sheep, fur in other animals, silk, kangaroo tail, and the like. 

Kangaroos put the pogo-stick principle to particularly effective use and elite athletes are much more kangaroo-like than non-elite (see Figure 13.B). It has been calculated that is to these springs the effect of raise the efficiency of conversion... 

Rodent species differ in their ability to smell buried seeds those from arid climates perform better than species from mesic climates. Specifically, Panamint kangaroo rats, Dipodomys panamintinus, from arid and semiarid areas of the Great Basin Desert in North America were the only species that found deep caches... 

The western grey kangaroo (Macropusfuliginosus), the major indigenous herbivore in southwestern Australia, avoids plants of the family Myrtaceae (which include Eucalyptus spp. cloves, and guava), which includes 3500 species on that continent. Essential oils characterize the Myrtaceae many species contain two to nine of these. In one experiment, seven Myrtaceae species were not browsed, while comparable species of other families were. All seven species contained the monoterpene 2,5-dimethyl-3-methylene 1,5-heptadine. The kangaroos also browsed one non-Myrtaceae species (Sollya heterophylla, Pittosporaceae) very little. This species contained the same monoterpene (Jones etal, 2003). 

Three systems possibly result from at least diffuse coevolution rat kangaroos and legumes in Australia, snowshoe hares and Alaska paper birch in Alaska, and brown and collared lemmings in Arctic North America. 

Ord s kangaroo rat Dipodomys ordii Green plants Injected 6-MBOA 6-MBOA on rolled barley in field Reproduces after rainfall Increased uterus mass More pregnant females Rowsemitt and O Connor, 1989... 

Plannery, T. (1998). Throwing Way Leg Tree-kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds On the track of Unknown Mammals in WildestNew Guinea. New York Atlantic Monthly Press. 

Jones, A. S., Lamont, B. B., Fairbanks, M. M., and Rafferty, C. M. (2003). Kangaroos avoid eating seedlings with or nearothers with volatile csscnt a[oi s.JournalofChemicalEcol-Cgy 29, 2621-2635. 

Randall, J. A. (1986). Preference for estrous female urine by male kangaroo rats (Dipodomys spectabilis). Journal of Mammalogy 67,736-739. 

Webster, D. B. (1973). Audition, vision, and olfaction in kangaroo rat predator avoidance. 

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