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Alles, was über das Känguruh zu sagen wäre ist in dem Lied »Kangaroo?« von The Red Crayola with Art & Language enthalten:
On their voyage of discovery,
Of privation and cartography,
The sailors said to Captain Cook,
"Come over here and have a look.
We've caught a creature with a pouch
That leaps and springs and seems to crouch.
Its head is small, its ears are long.
Its legs and tail are thick and strong."
No-one knew what the creature was.
Some men were sent ashore because
Animals must have a name
(And the natives knew the game).
Meanwhile, the captive pushed and shoved,
Was given leather boxing-gloves.
The men returned, trusty and true,
»They tell us it's a kangaroo.«
(The truth emerged much later when,
On trips by less resourceful men,
The Aborigines told those who'd come to stay
That kangaroo meant What did you say?)
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