Did you know that many years ago, the kangaroo had no pouch? That’s true.
I wouldn’t lie to you. (I might
kid you a little bit, but I wouldn’t lie to you.) Let me tell you how they got the pouches that
they have today.
Since most of them couldn’t afford
babysitters or even the least expensive day care facility, when they went out
to feed, the mother kangaroos always had their children with them. Every time they bent down to take a bite of a
delicious plant or munch on some grass their joeys (babies) would run off to
play. The moms would have to stop eating
and go off in search of them. It was okay
when the joeys were little and in their strollers, but they soon outgrew
those. True, it kept the mothers slim,
but they were always hungry.
One day one of the mothers had a great
idea. “If we just had something to put
them in,” she thought, “We could finally finish a meal without all that
hassle.” She went online and typed in
“baby carriers”. She found Baby Bjorns
and Moby Wraps and some other brands.
She ordered several so she and her friends could try them out. They were fine when the mothers were standing
still, but when they bent over to eat, the joeys tended to slip out. And there was no way they would stay in when
their moms started hopping! They had to
come up with a Plan B.
They thought and thought and they
watched many other animals. They saw an
alligator with her baby sitting on her head and they tried that but it gave
them headaches. They saw an opossum with
her babies on her back and they tried that, too, but when they stood up, the
joeys slid off. It was then that they
had another idea--why not carry them in a purse? A few of them went to the local Dollar Store
and got some inexpensive purses to try it out.
They worked perfectly but human (and kangaroo) nature being what it is,
some of the mothers had to show off.
They began carrying their joeys in handbags designed by Louis Vuitton,
Kate Spade and even Prada.
Naturally, that made the kangaroo
mothers who couldn’t afford the designer brands very sad. One of them went to Pinterest and found a
pattern for an apron. She played around
with it and discovered that if she sewed two of them together, with an opening
at the top which could by kept closed with a drawstring, she had the perfect
baby carrier. She made enough for all
her friends, who loved them. It wasn’t
long before all lady kangaroos, even the Prada carrying ones, started wearing
them.
Apparently, Mother Nature thought that
was a really good idea, too, because now all female kangaroos are born with her
version of that apron. She didn’t
include the drawstring closure, though.
These just in from Elephant's Child:
My opinions may have changed, but not the
fact that I am right----fishducky
