The Roo talking to you
Alan McElligott is an animal behavior researcher at City University of Hong Kong and first author of the study indicating that Kangaroos can communicate with humans. Not just when they are hopping mad either. The study suggests the marsupials might be more intelligent than previously thought. This challenges the notion that communication with humans is restricted to domesticated animals such as dogs, cats, horses or goats and that the capability is a product of the domestication process itself. The study was based on experiments involving 11 captive, but not domesticated, kangaroos. When ten of the 11 the kangaroos were presented with an “unsolvable problem,” a box filled with food that they couldn’t open, the animals began to gaze intently at the researchers when their efforts to get the box open failed. Nine kangaroos even looked back and forth between the researcher and the box, as if to say, “Can you give me a hand with this?” “Kangaroos are considered an Australian pest. “We hope that this research draws attention to the cognitive abilities of kangaroos and helps foster more positive attitudes towards them.”
Hopping good Humor
Did you hear about the beer made entirely out of rabbits, frogs and kangaroos?
It’s mostly hops.
The “19 News” showed I can fit 30 bananas into a Kangaroo’s pouch.
Also, I’m not allowed at the zoo anymore.
A spider, a snake, and a kangaroo walk into a bar…
It’s just a normal day in Australia.
What do you do with an Elephant that has three balls?
You walk him and pitch to the Kangaroo
March 15th Birthdays
1970 – Kim Raver, 1994 – Alia Bhatt, 1975 – Eva Longoria, 1989 – Caitlin Wachs
1986 – Kellen Lutz, 1961- Fabio, 1956 – Clay Matthews, 1977 – Jai Courtney
Morning Motivator
Give light and people will find the way.