Aplacental is a term applied to those mammals in which the young are destitute of a placenta. The aplacental mammals comprise the Monotremata and Marsupialia, the two lowest orders of mammals, including the duck-mole (ornithorhynchus), the porcupine, anteater, kangaroo, etc. Research Aplacental
Kangaroo is the name of any marsupial of the family Macropodidae found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea.
Kangaroos are plant-eaters and most live in groups. They are adapted to hopping, the vast majority of species having very large back legs and feet compared with the small forelimbs. The larger types can jump nine metres in a single bound. Most are nocturnal. Species vary from small rat kangaroos, only 30 centimetres long, through the medium-sized wallabies, to the large red and great grey kangaroos, which are the largest living marsupials. These may be 1.8 metres long with 1.1 metres tails. In New Guinea and North Queensland, tree kangaroos (Dendrolagus) occur. These have comparatively short hind limbs. The great grey kangaroo Macropus giganteus produces a single young (called a 'Joey') about two centimetres long after a very short gestation, usually in early summer. At birth the young kangaroo is too young even to suck. It remains in its mother's pouch, attached to a nipple which squirts milk into its mouth at intervals. It stays in the pouch, with excursions as it matures, for about 280 days. Research Kangaroo
The pouched mouse, pocketmouse or kangaroorat (Dipodomys) is a genus of North American rodents belonging to the family Geomyidae, and characterized by the elongated tail and hind limbs, the slender form, and the presence of large cheek pouches. Research Pouched Mouse
The tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus) is a genus of arboreal kangaroos found only in Australia and New Guinea. There are about seven species, black or dark grey in colour, with the front and hind limbs almost equal in length, and thus differing from the ground kangaroos. They feed mainly on fruit and ferns. Research Tree Kangaroo
The Ram Kangaroo was a variant of the Canadian Ramtank of the Second World War, which had the turret removed and seats fitted inside the hull to make an effective armoured personnel carrier. Ram Kangaroos were widely used by the British and Canadian armies during 1944 and 1945. Research Ram Kangaroo
The KH-20 (AS-3 Kangaroo) was a Soviet air-launched anti-ship guided missile in service from 1962 to the late 1980s. The KH-20 had a flight speed of mach 1.8 and a range of up to 650 km depending on the altitude at which it was launched, and was fitted with either a thermonuclear warhead of up to 3 megatons or a 2300 kg proximity-and impact-fused blast/fragmentation warhead. Research KH-20
Gloves are coverings for the hand, or for the hand and wrist, with a separate sheath for each finger. They are made of leather, fur, cloth, silk, linen thread, cotton, worsted, etc. The chief leathers traditionaly used in glove manufacture were doe, buck, and calf-skins; sheep-skin for military gloves; lamb-skin for much of the so-called kid gloves; true kid for the best and finest gloves; and formerly also dog, rat, and kangaroo skins, etc. The leather in all cases undergoes a much lighter dressing than when used for boots and shoes. Leather gloves are usually cut out by means of dies, and sewed by a machine of peculiar construction.
The best woollen, thread, and silk gloves are made by cutting and sewing, but commoner gloves are made by knitting and weaving. In Englandleather gloves were traditionallly manufactured at London, Worcester, and elsewhere. Limerick was formerly celebrated for gloves of a peculiarly delicate kind. Gloversville, in New York, was the chief American seat of the manufacture. Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany all historically have a reputation for the manufacture of excellent gloves, but France traditionally supplied the world with most of the finer and more expensive kinds.
Large quantities of cotton gloves were formerly manufactured at Nottingham and Leicester; and the greater part of the woollen gloves was made in Wales, Scotland, and the North of England.
Gloves are a very ancient article of dress, and many curious customs and usages are connected with them. Throwing the glove down before a person amounted to a challenge to single combat. The judges in England used to be prohibited wearing gloves on the bench; and it was only in case of a maiden assize that the sheriffs were allowed to present a judge with a pair of gloves. Research Glove
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