Adult and young red kangaroo in arid grassland

Mammalia · Diprotodontia

Red Kangaroo

Osphranter rufus

The largest surviving marsupial and largest terrestrial mammal native to its continent, roaming vast arid shrublands and open interior plains.

Realm
Terrestrial
Conservation status
LCLeast Concern
Data provenance

This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.

Method and version
Evidence snapshot

A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1489 licence-filtered records across 102 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.

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Retained datasets (9)