According to a latest research published in the December 2007 issue of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology entitled as “Predicting Extinction: Investigating the Interface of Physiology, Ecology, and Climate Change”, finds that an increase in average temperature of only two degrees Celsius could have a devastating effect on populations of Australia’s iconic kangaroos due to the negative consequences of global warming.

“If dry seasons are to become hotter and rainfall events more unpredictable, habitats may become depleted of available pasture
for grazing and waterholes may dry up. This may result in acute starvation and failed reproduction/possible death due to the rising cases dehydration for those species that are less mobile. And although kangaroo species may be mobile enough to relocate as the climate changes, the vegetation and topography for which they are adapted are unlikely to shift at the same pace.” write study authors Euan G. Ritchie and Elizabeth E. Bolitho of James Cook University in Australia.

For example the Antilopine wallaroo, a kangaroo species is near to extinction due to the rise in the global temperature.