- Eastern grey kangaroos have social lives that are comparable to those of humans.
- Male kangaroos appear to be just interested in one thing, whilst female kangaroos look for company.
- The study tracked 130 kangaroos on a private property in Mudgee and utilized their ear shapes to identify individuals.
Eastern grey kangaroos have social lives that are comparable to those of humans, according to researchers at the University of New South Wales.
It is an interesting result of the study, which was directed by Ph.D. candidate Nora Campbell, that kangaroos establish friendships with the same people over a period of years. Male kangaroos appear to be just interested in one thing, whilst female kangaroos look for company.
Eastern grey kangaroos
According to the study, mother kangaroos are more social than non-parent kangaroos, however, they prefer to hang out in smaller groups rather than in one big mob.
The sociality of mothers was much higher than that of non-mother kangaroos, indicating that they were still establishing small groups when they gave birth but were switching groups more frequently and interacting with a larger number of kangaroos as a whole.
The study, according to conservation biologist Daniel Ramp, was an unusual look into the inner life of kangaroos because there hasn’t been much research on animals’ inner lives.
The study tracked 130 kangaroos on a private property in Mudgee and utilized their ear shapes to identify individuals. This information allowed researchers to build a graph showing all of the kangaroos’ social interactions.
Due to their fission-fusion type of socialization, eastern grey kangaroos cycle through periods where they form bigger groups before splintering into more intimate social groups. Dr. Ramp argued that the key to advancing conservation was learning more about the behavior of sentient creatures.
