Sam, watch out or I'll hop right over the Tasman and box your ears!

Little Hawk, our kangaroos and emus do need to be liberated. Unfortunately kangaroos are being killed for pet food (there is often a population explosion of them and this is deemed to solve the problem, but it is really the graziers - farmers with grazing livestock like dairy cows, and sheep - who think that they are a threat to their profits. Emus are being farmed for their meat as well. The only way I could eat either is if I were starving with nothing else to eat, i.e. the Aboriginal way of life, but I wouldn't be clever enough to catch them.

Amos, now I get the joke. Clever!
Another aside: the word playtpus comes from the Greek and not the Latin so the plural is not platypi but platypuses, and similarly with octopuses.

Helen