Recent reports of a WA man being killed by a kangaroo have been syndicated by foreign news agencies for much the same reasons that Jane Goodall’s revelation that chimpanzees kill each other made international headlines in the 1960’s. Thanks to A.A. Milne, Walt Disney and Qantas the world’s largest marsupials have long enjoyed a reputation for being at worst no threat to us and at best to being our funny, furry friends.
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