page_title: Eastern grey kangaroo
section_title: Status
hierarchical_section_title: Eastern grey kangaroo / Status
caption_attribution_description: English: Roadkill Eastern Grey Kangaroo, Victoria, Australia.
context_page_description: The eastern grey kangaroo is a marsupial found in eastern third of Australia, with a population of several million. It is also known as the great grey kangaroo and the forester kangaroo. Although a big eastern grey male typically masses around 66 kg and stands almost 2 m tall, the scientific name, Macropus giganteus, is misleading: the red kangaroo of the semi-arid inland is larger, weighing up to 90 kg.
context_section_description: It is popularly thought, but not confirmed by evidence, 
   that kangaroo populations have increased significantly since the European colonisation of Australia because of the increased areas of grassland (as distinct from forest), the reduction in dingo numbers, and the availability of artificial watering holes. The estimated population of the species Australia-wide in 2010 was 11.4 million. In some places the eastern grey is so numerous it causes overgrazing and some individual populations have been culled in some parts of Australia (see, for example, the Eden Park Kangaroo Cull).
  Despite the commercial harvest and some culls, the eastern grey remains common and widespread. Eastern greys are common in suburban and rural areas where they have been observed to form larger groups than in natural areas.   It still covers the entire range it occupied when Europeans arrived in Australia in 1788  and it often comes into conflict with agriculture as it uses the more fertile districts that now carry crops or exotic pasture grasses, which kangaroos readily eat. Kangaroo meat has also been considered to replace beef in recent years, as their soft feet are preferable to hooves in erosion prone areas.
caption: A carcass of an eastern grey kangaroo caused by roadkill in Victoria, Australia
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