{"id":1531,"date":"2019-08-19T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2025-07-13T15:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T22:06:23","slug":"how-many-kinds-of-kangaroos-are-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/how-many-kinds-of-kangaroos-are-there\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Kinds of Kangaroos Are There?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are two ways to answer this question, depending on how you define &#8220;kind&#8221; of kangaroo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Commonly referred to kangaroos:<\/strong> There are <strong>four<\/strong> species commonly referred to as kangaroos:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/faq-red-kangaroo\/\">Red kangaroo<\/a> (<em>Macropus rufus<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eastern grey kangaroo (<em>Macropus giganteus<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Western grey kangaroo (<em>Macropus fuliginosus<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Antilopine kangaroo (<em>Macropus antilopinus<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Kangaroo family (Macropodidae):<\/strong> If you consider the entire kangaroo family (<em>Macropodidae<\/em>), which includes kangaroos, wallabies, wallaroos, quokkas, tree-kangaroos, rat-kangaroos, and more, then there are <strong>over 160 species<\/strong> in total!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Excellent question! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-2571651847880215\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n<!-- banner ad -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2571651847880215\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"7178535257\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two ways to answer this question, depending on how you define &#8220;kind&#8221; of kangaroo. Excellent question!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,144,145,34],"tags":[143,26,45,42,115,137,51,31],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal-bytes","category-animal-face-offs","category-animal-faq","category-animal-tales","tag-animal-comparisons","tag-animal-facts","tag-australian-animals","tag-conservation","tag-faq","tag-kangaroos","tag-marsupials","tag-wild-animals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pexels-photo-5967949.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}