#0248 · 🦊 mammals

Western Grey Kangaroo

🇳🇱 Westelijke Grijze Reuzenkangoeroe ·Macropus fuliginosus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The western grey kangaroo ( Macropus fuliginosus ), also referred to as a western grey giant kangaroo , black-faced kangaroo , mallee kangaroo , and sooty kangaroo , is a large and very common kangaroo found across almost the entire southern part of Australia, from just south of Shark Bay through coastal Western Australia and South Australia, into western Victoria, and in the entire Murray–Darling basin in New South Wales and Queensland.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 13,331iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
13,331 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1817 (209 years ago).