I know I've mentioned
once before an incident of a kangaroo in our yard. And, living where we do (right on the boundry between suburbia and rural) doesn't help in our attempts to educate the rest of the world that Australian cities don't in fact have kangaroos and koalas roaming the streets. ;~P
My kids' Primary school used to have a lot of vacant land around it, so it was pretty common for the kids to see roos in the paddock beside their oval and playground. A lot of that land has been turned in to housing now, so the kangaroos had moved to areas without building going on. Or so we thought.
A couple of days ago, my youngest came home from school to tell me that the kangaroos had literally herded all the kids off the oval at lunch time. The smaller ones would circle while the big ones crossed back and forth through the middle until the oval was cleared of children, whereupon they settled down to graze!
I find myself awed at the kangaroos' skill at clearing the oval so they could graze on it, and desperately sad that the drought has forced them to do such a thing.
No kangaroos or children were harmed at all thank goodness.
On a completely different note, I want to give a BIG HUG and thankyou to
hill_ for her lovely virtual gift this morning!
And you have to go see
mudblood428's beautiful new
painting!
Oh! And listen to the latest podcast from
http://www.spell-cast.com/! There's a fantastic chat between some of the most
awesome artists in fandom!! And I am totally
honoured and a
squeee that they asked me on too!
We have sort of the same problem with White Tail Deer here. One made the news the other day when it jumped through a window of a tanning salon in the middle of the day. We have them in our front yard every now and again and they wreak havoc on the roads around here. Mason hit two of them in the same season a few years ago. Messed up the car but he was ok. Can’t say the same for the poor deer however. Loved the Spellcast chat you had. It must have been really fun.
Can I ask for a translation of "the oval" is that like the lawn or something?
A kangaroo will make a mess of your car if you hit one while driving. And, yes, I daresay it is similar to your deer issue. Kangaroos fill the same ecological niche as deer. :~)
I got to see three river otters the other day and was so thrilled by it.
I've had one hold onto my arm so it could eat the food I had there. It was at a park, not in the wild but it was kind of scary. I wasn't going to say no, it couldn't have the food. It was almost as tall as I was.