{"id":2849,"date":"2012-08-17T10:46:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T08:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2019-12-03T11:50:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T10:50:54","slug":"how-to-catch-a-kangaroo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/how-to-catch-a-kangaroo\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Catch a Kangaroo&#8230; With a Shopping Bag!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a funny but simple way to catch a kangaroo, posted on Youtube by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/kookabugga\">Kookabugga<\/a>. The video shows an Australian bloke catching a baby kangaroo by simply offering the animal a shopping bag to fall into. I can&#8217;t tell if the guy is an animal handler who has trained the kangaroo to tumble into the bag, or if it&#8217;s just an oddity of the outback that kangaroos will fall into anything that resembles mum&#8217;s pouch. Either way it&#8217;s a good giggle!<\/p>\n<p>In the Australian outback, kangaroos are very common and are easily spotted by hopeful tourists out on wildlife safaris. But drivers beware &#8211; kangaroos are known for jumping in front of cars and can cause quite a lot of damage to motor vehicles, and cause upset among kangaroo-loving kids. There are many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/search\/petting+zoo+near+Australia\/@-30.5804824,140.185418,5z\/data=!3m1!4b1\">petting zoos in Australia<\/a> that offer visitors the chance to interact with kangaroos, and this sounds like way more fun than possibly getting lost in the hot and dry Australian outback and maybe knocking a roo down. Maybe the petting zoo will even let you try out your kangaroo-catching skills with a shopping bag!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a funny but simple way to catch a kangaroo, posted on Youtube by Kookabugga. The video shows an Australian bloke catching a baby kangaroo by simply offering the animal a shopping bag to fall into. I can&#8217;t tell if the guy is an animal handler who has trained the kangaroo to tumble into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[48,63,951,954,948,949,180,947,310,365,416,438,504,952,522,950,548,955,953,792,809],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}