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This three kilo seven month old albino wallaby is a lucky animal.
In transit in the US, it climbed out of its cage in a plane cargo hold and took off across the runway in Salt Lake City.
It was nobbled and returned to its cage.
There is a persistent joke in a Loony Tunes cartoon series in which Sylvester mistakes a boxing kangaroo called Hippety-hopper for a mouse, and gets the crap beaten out of him in front of his son.
This wallaby, now named Tarmac, looks awfully like a giant rat…
May 9th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
” looks awfully like a giant rat…” What, in the sense that a giraffe looks like a giant goat, or a Jack Russell terrier looks like a well behaved ferret.
Puh..leese
May 9th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Or that certain politicians look like national leaders….
interesting question, actually. Even though we are joking, I would think that an employee of Salt Lake City airport who saw a bouncing white animal on the tarmac would be unlikely to say: Oh yerzz… an albino wallaby. You go for the creature you have a search image for.
The bounce would really weird you out, but everything else would point you to a local mammal.
May 10th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
[...] Just a note that the wiki is playing up today, so no internal hyperlinks. Otherwise service is as normal, with this edition prepared by Jason Soon, Amanda Rose, Patrick Garson and James Farrell, with Helen Dale editing. Ken Parish will be back on deck next week, when he’s a little less flat-out-like-a-lizard-drinking. The image – an albino Wallaby – comes via David Tiley, who also tells its rather odd story. [...]