Since this blog title also includes the word, "kangaroo", I guess it is time I added a "moment that made me smile" that involved that interesting creature. Since I grew up with a
stuffed animal kangaroo and her joey, that we named Kanga and Roo, I have always been fascinated with this animal and had hoped one day to see a mother with her joey in "real life" shall we say.
Yes, I was in
Australia when I had my "kangaroo encounter". The kangaroo that added to my "smile list" was observed in a
wildlife park in Sydney. She was an average-sized docile looking creature in the midst of dozens of other fellow kangaroos hopping about a large grassy enclosure. What caught my attention, though, was her pouch.
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| Kangaroo with her joey |
Something in it was moving! Ah yes,
she had a joey with her. As I stood there fascinated by the movements of her pouch--like a watching a punching bag being punched from the inside out--suddenly not the head appeared of this tiny kangaroo but its two back legs!
Blissfully unaware of the stir she and her joey had created for the onlookers-- with the tiny legs of her joey sticking straight up like forks out of her pouch--Kanga, with Roo happily ensconsed in its warm and cozy home, bounded off in picturesque springs.
