Dot and the Kangaroo to understand the language of all animals, and she tells the kangaroo her plight. The kangaroo, who has lost her own joey, decides to help little Dot despite her own fear of humans. The book is filled with criticism on negative human interference in the wild in 1884. A film adaptation was released in 1977 directed by Yoram Gross. It combines animation with live action. (with original illustrations) Dot and the Kangaroo Dot and the Kangaroo is a children's book written by Ethel C. Pedley about a little girl named Dot who gets lost in the Australian outback and is
Desert rat-kangaroo AC Robinson (1997) The present status and distribution of the desert rat-kangaroo Caloprymnus campestris (Marsupialia: Potoroidae) The South Australian Naturalist, 72(1) 1997 Desert rat-kangaroo The desert rat-kangaroo ("Caloprymnus campestris"), also called the buff-nosed rat-kangaroo, plains rat-kangaroo or oolacunta, is an extinct small hopping marsupial endemic to desert regions of Central Australia. It was discovered in the early 1840s and described by John Gould in London in 1843, on the basis of three specimens sent to him by George Grey, the governor of South Australia at the time. It was formed like a kangaroo, but had the bulk of a small