Kangaroo Island has its' own subspecies of kangaroo - named oddly enough - the Kangaroo Island or Sooty Kangaroo, and is related to the Western Grey. Compared to Western Greys they are shorter, stockier, have luxurious chocolate brown fur with black tips (ears/feet/paws/tail). Kangaroos are browsers and grazers - and as such fill the same ecological niche or do the same “job” as deer in much of the northern hemisphere.

I was thrilled to find this one in the wild basking in the shade of a tree. Not a great image, but a delightful find and memory.