High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kanga is the name of a recurring fictional character in A. A. Milne`s series of books about Winnie-the-Pooh. A female kangaroo, Kanga is Roo`s mother and a good friend to Winnie-the-Pooh and all the other residents of the Hundred Acre Wood. She lives with Roo in a house near the Sandy Pit in the northwestern part of the Forest. Tigger later comes to live with them.