Hill Kangaroo, <i>Macropus robustus</i> (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Hill Kangaroo, <i>Macropus robustus</i>

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Macropus robustus is a midsized kangaroo also known as a hill wallaroo or euro. This one is from northern Australia, but they also inhabit western Australia, where a University of Utah anthropologist found that wallaroo populations are highest at moderate distances from Martu Aboriginal communities. In those places, moderate levels of human disruption -- grass burning to help hunt lizards and also hunting of kangaroos -- suggest Aboriginal efforts to feed themselves also benefited their prey, kangaroos, in a relationship that evolved during the past 2,000 years or more.

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Michael Barritt and Karen May, Wikimedia Commons. (<a target="_blank"href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Macropus_robustus2.jpg">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Macropus_robustus2.jpg</a>)

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