ACtually kangaroo locomotion is exceedingly efficient.
Suzanne
>oz; what you want, then, sheila? the stereotypes or what we really think?
> there's crocodile dundee and mad max, certainly (but also
>the fact that
>there are 2 australian film directors named george miller); theodore white,
>galipoli, bruce chatwin's songlines, the australian philosopher's
>drinking song
>(aka the bruces), bruce and sheila, XXXX, some relatively good wine,
>funny hats
>on the lifeguards, etc. -
> nick roeg's walkabout, dame edith somebody -
> it's long been my personal opinion vis a vis the aussies, that they
>suffer under a psychological burden - a feeling of inadequacy - which must be
>lived up to in terms of somewhat over-the-top behaviour and is the
>result of the
>preferred means of locomotion of the largest still extant
>non-humanoid mammalian
>species being bouncing, a definitely eccentric form of behaviour and possibly
>inneficient means of getting about -
>
>geoff carver
>http://home.t-online.de/home/gcarver/
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