KANGAROOS 
All these marsupials possess also a pair of bones diverging 
from each other like a “ V”’, which support the walls 
of the pouch, and are not found in any of the higher 
mammals. These can be easily felt through the skin ; 
and though it has been said that the dog possesses a 
similar pair of structures, it is not by any means clear 
that there is a real correspondence. It will be noticed 
that these bones, although they support the wall of the 
pouch, are not in the least developed to that end ; for 
they occur in the male as well as in the female. With 
the exception of the American opossums and a small 
creature known as “ Raton runcho,” or technically as 
Cenolestes, the marsupials are at the present day only 
found in Australia and some of the islands to the north 
of that continent as well as in Tasmania in the south. 
They do not get to New Zealand, which is an island with- 
out indigenous mammals at all except a bat or two. 
THE GIANT KANGAROO 
One of the principal improvements at the Zoo of late 
years has been the formation of a respectable paddock 
for the enjoyment of the leaping kangaroos, who can now 
show us something of their strength and agility. For- 
merly the cooped up series of backyards in which they 
vegetated gave no chance to realize that a kangaroo 
can clear at a single leap a space of some twenty feet. 
The kangaroo is certainly like no other animal, except, 
of course, its own immediate relatives the other kan- 
garoo-like genera. Its rather small head with long 
ears is not unsuggestive of that of a donkey; it has a 
mild look which is not an index of its nature, for the 
kangaroo when at close quarters and with its back 
against a wall is not by any means a mild antagonist. 
The body with its huge tail, powerful hind legs, and 
diminutive fore limbs is only paralleled by the jerboa 
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