Kangaroos have always taken center stage in this blog (which I started almost 13 years ago to try to tap into the then recent introduction of Australian English into TOEIC testing), so it was a bit rare yesterday when I had the chance to write about roos but didn’t (albeit giving prominence to quokkas, another member of the marsupial family).
Yesterday, the Kangaeroos had a wonderful time at the Saitama Children’s Zoo, which has an Australian animal area., and attracted us because Mrs. Kangaeroo wanted to see its quokkas.
I know a lot of people aren’t too keen on zoos, but I love them, even though I feel for the poor captive animals.
I always console myself by saying that they are at least being freed form the savagery of life in the wild, even though that is the ideal reality and we should be looking to preserve ecosystems.
Anyway, enough of my pontificating.
Today, the macropodidae are front and center again, but kangaroos are back in the limelight.
Here’s a gallery of animals we saw at the zoo.
