Chapter I: The Kangaroo and Wombat Families

THE GREAT KANGAROO--Captain Cook and the Great
Kangaroo--Habitat--Appearance of the Animal--Marsupials
separated from the other Mammalian Orders, and why
(Footnote)--Gestation and Birth of Young (Footnote)--Mode
of Running--The Short Fore Limbs--The _Marsupium_, or
Pouch--Head--Dentition--Peculiarities in the Teeth--Hind
Extremities--Foot--Great Claw--How the Erect Position is
maintained--Whence their Jumping Power is derived--Other
Skeletal Peculiarities--Kangaroo Hunts--Becoming
Rarer--Mode of Attack and Defence--Hands--Bones of the Fore
Limbs--Skull--Stomach--Circulation of Blood--Peculiarity
in Young--Nervous System not fully developed--Brain--The
Baby Kangaroo in the Pouch--THE HARE KANGAROO--THE
GREAT ROCK KANGAROO--THE RED KANGAROO--THE BRUSH
KANGAROO--THE BRUSH-TAILED ROCK KANGAROO--THE COMMON
TREE KANGAROO--THE KANGAROO-RATS--Characteristics--THE
RAT-TAILED HYPSIPRYMNUS--Description--THE WOMBAT FAMILY--THE
WOMBAT--Peculiarities--Description--Habits--Teeth--Skeleton 191