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| 2007-05-26 |
| Vid at link. AFTER a visit to Australia Stacey Purdy knows what a wallaby looks like. Except this albino version was living, breathing and hopping – in Olney! The 28-year-old was walking her dog on Tuesday when she came upon the creature between Weston Road and Emberton Park. "There were the sheep and a wallaby, as large as life, eating the grass with them," said the IT trainer. Fortunately Stacey had a digital camera – bought only that morning – and managed to capture it on film. "I had seen wallabies at Australia Zoo earlier this year but never dreamed I would see one so close to home," she said. The sighting follows one reported by the Citizen several years ago in the same area though that animal was believed killed by a car. It is understood the wallabies could be descendants of a group which escaped from a private zoo. Or, more likely, it's Global Warming. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #12 Tan me 'ide when I'm dead, Fred. Tan me 'ide when I'm dead. So they tanned his hide when he died, Clyde, That's it there hangin' up on the shed... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2007-05-26 21:33 |
| #11 Watch me wallabys feed mate. Watch me wallabys feed. They're a dangerous breed mate. So watch me wallabys feed. Altogether now! Tie me kangaroo down sport, tie me kangaroo down. Tie me kangaroo down sport, tie me kangaroo down. |
| Posted by: bruce 2007-05-26 21:14 |
| #10 Do they cook up well? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2007-05-26 19:55 |
| #9 You forgot purdy sheep. Or did you ? |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-05-26 19:35 |
| #8 ..kept wonderin what all the big fuss waz about a Wallaby eating grass in Australia waz until i realized that.... DUH.. btw purty gal + purty countryside + purty Wallaby |
| Posted by: RD 2007-05-26 17:08 |
| #7 Climate change. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2007-05-26 16:39 |
| #6 Probably with a theory about an Australia-England land bridge. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-05-26 15:45 |
| #5 Amazing footage. The bloody thing looks like a dog or a rabbit until it suddenly gets up and kangaroo-hops away. Won't the fossils confound future paleontologists! How will they explain the sudden manifestation of marsupials in Europe at this late stage? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-05-26 15:09 |
| #4 Stacy is purdy. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-05-26 13:32 |
| #3 Footage looks like the Blair Wallaby Project... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-05-26 11:57 |
| #2 Stacey had a digital camera – bought only that morning – and managed to capture it on film. Yup. Have you noticed that phone numbers are still dialed? And I wonder why they call them ring tones. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-05-26 11:46 |
| #1 There used to be a population in the english Peak District. Saw some once when I was hiking across the moors. Came bounding out of the mist. Spooky. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2007-05-26 11:21 |