Blog #46 And now for something completely different!

Here is a photograph of Anne outside "Sydney Wildlife World", when she went along to introduce herself to the curator to do some research for her new book. Now that is a clue!

As some of you may recognise, Anne is standing beside a cast of a (Red) Kangaroo, which stands outside. There are many live kangaroos in the Australian bush, but none in the city except at our famous zoos. (And none in the new book!)

Kangaroos are certainly not all this big, but some of them are, with the average Red Kangaroo standing approximately1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) tall. Accounts of sizes greater than this are not uncommon, with some large males reportedly reaching approximately 2 metres (6 ft 7 in). Anne is approx 1.8 metres (nearly 6 foot) tall, so this cast is not too unreal.

The males can leap over 9 metres (30 ft) in one leap!! Now that is one giant leap!