Did you know that kangaroos can’t move backwards.
Kangaroos live in the Australian Outback which is a wide open space. And they have a mode of travel that they have adapted for this kind of environment: they use ‘saltatory locomotion.’ They JUMP! Kangaroos can jump up to thirty feet at a time and have large back feet and a long tail that they use to counterbalance their bodies. You might even say that kangaroos are built to jump…forward. They can also move left or right with ease, but they cannot walk or jump backward. In fact they don’t walk at all, only jumps, large or small.
The reason is simple, that huge tail is in the way!
Kangaroos can, however, swim. Maybe that can be a consolation.
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