Thursday 12 March 2009

Kangaroo update

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Mother and daughter, relaxing beneath a pistachio nut tree.

The original photo from my blog (Feb 12th, 2007), showing the mother being bottle fed:

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17 comments:

  1. Awwwww... they are cute buggers.

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  2. Neat! I have to admit that's a sight you never see around here.

    Want to trade for a badger snarling at and attacking one and all? Or maybe a mama skunk with a train of littles tearing up the grass?{*grin*}

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  3. Thanks Dan but, ah, no thanks.

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  4. That is so cool. We had to bottle feed one of our goats. He turned out to relate more to humans than his herdmates.

    Don't kangaroos grow up to be dangerous? I recently saw a video of wildlife officers trying to catch a kangaroo in a sort of net in a neighborhood. In the bit I saw they didn't catch it.

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  5. Please can you tell us more about Kangaroos, I think we hear lots of bad stuff about them. Great pictures.

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  6. Great photos - especially that last one!

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  7. And they lived happily ever after.

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  8. She's like your adopted daughter already..with cameo appearances in this blog..she's so special to us too who read your blog and was touched by the first pics the first time we saw it!

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  9. oh goodness - i want one! so precious. but i hear they can kick the devil out of you!

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  10. 2 years later she has a baby. And I'm still single.

    Any takers? Anyone? Anyone at all?

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  11. (Aizan, never push LOve. It'll come if you're looking and ready)

    I had to bottle feed Beanie (a dog) from a two day old pup. The Mom had died, my friend talked my ex-wife into taking a pup, and it was unbelievable (and undescribable, because some of you are eating) what one has to do.
    Wild or domestic, though, the animal will undoubtably make connections that will last their lifetimes. And, given the 'magic' of their internal communication skills? My guess is that her great great great grand kangaroo offsprings will also know of the bottle feeding.

    (In fact, don't you suppose she came up to the nice house and 'asked' for a milk bottle when it came to that time?)

    (OK, well, maybe not )

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  12. Is that you in the picture? You look so different. Lovely pics!

    I feel achy watching Kangaroos, its like they have back bent forward with all the weight below, I know its a concept of transference and they feel no back pain, but tell my mind that. Love them though!

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  13. For some reason the second pic brought to mind Manet's "Olympia". Great name for her, don't you think?

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  14. No, that's not me in the photo.
    That's my farming friend.

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  15. They are cute and have really pretty faces... and how lovely to see that she now has her own daughter. ♥

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