NEWS AND OPINION: Nike has announced that it will stop using kangaroo leather (K-leather) in all of its products which of course includes football boots, by the end of 2023 and will be using synthetic materials instead for the uppers. Nike is following in the …
NEWS AND COMMENT: Peter Eades, 77, has been named as the alpaca farmer who was killed by his pet kangaroo. It is, apparently, extremely rare for a kangaroo to kill a human but kangaroos do attack humans. There are unsuited as pets when adult. And …
This is a picture of a 1 in a 100,000 “white as a sheet of paper” kangaroo photographed in the wild in Australia by Sarah Kinnon in the Queensland outback. There are two ways it seems that kangaroos can be white: albino or due to …
Gilbert’s potoroo vanished in the 1870s. It was believed to have become extinct about 120 years ago. It was (now is) one of Australia’s precious marsupial native species. It looks like a cute rat crossed with a kangaroo. Dr. Jackie Courtenay, a conservation biologist with …
Roger Federer loves quokkas. I can see why and why a lot of other people like them too. The cuteness factor is high. This is a high quality photograph too; smiling, happy and animated against a serene background. Quokkas are known for their smile 🙂 …
The video explains it all to be honest but I’ll add some words and comments – note: I’ve concluded that this research is rather pointless for this reason. These captive kangaroos are in effect domesticated and the research is proving is that domesticated animals communicate …
NEWS AND VIEWS: There appear to be wallabies roaming around wild in the British countryside. The red-necked wallaby is about half the size of a kangaroo and they were introduced to Britain to be placed in zoos and private collections but many escaped captivity. The …
I’m sure that albino kangaroos are very rare. Research in Australia tells us that they occur once every 50,000 to 100,000 births. A baby albino kangaroo whose name is Mila has gone missing from the Kaiserslautern Zoo in Germany. The great fear is that the …
