I must say that I love kangaroos..they are just so TAME..

Week 3 pwned! We are more than halfway there now! Just when you think that the crazy folks at 1000 heads have used up all their best ideas, they’ve topped themselves again! OMG…when I saw this week’s challenge, I nearly fainted…this is week 4′s challenge:

This week we are looking at Sydney Wildlife. We want you to take inspiration from the various animals that can be found in and around Sydney, and create your own Australian creature – whether it be a mash-up of existing animals (platypus, koala, wombat, emu– there’s plenty to choose from!) or a completely new species.

As always, the medium in which you deliver your entry is up to you, and you’ll be judged on creativity, community involvement and use of the resources available to you.

We’ve made a little video about Dave the kangaroo and his quest to find some Australian mates in London (attached), so we want to see what sort of Aussie creature you’d create for him to buddy up with.

Do click on the above youtube link – it’s really sad in a funny sort of way..and what perfect soundtrack as well!

So guys…c’mon now…lets hear it…what sort of brand-new animal do you think would be the perfect companion for Dave the Kangaroo? Like they say,it can be an existing animal or a mash-up of different types of animals or a newly dreamt up animal…animal…dreaming up a completely new species of animal is not something that we regular folks do often!! I am totally stumped..and doesn’t help that I am actually on holiday at the moment with very limited access to wifi….I don’t believe that I have actually brought my laptop on holiday with me…this is what you call dedication!

To help you along your merry way, I have compiled some facts on the wildlife in Australia….I am, after all, the queen of irrelevant and crazy facts:

DID YOU KNOW…Born the size of a jelly bean, koalas travel to their mother’s pouch where they stay until they are old enough to cling onto her back.
DID YOU KNOW…They aren’t even related to bears. The koala is related to the kangaroo and the wombat. The koala is a mammal. The reason the koala is called a koala bear is because the koala looks like a teddy bear.
DID YOU KNOW…The Echidna is a monotreme, which means that it is a mammal that lays eggs. It’s scientific name (Tachyglossus aculeatus) means ‘spiny fast-tongue’
DID YOU KNOW…Platypuses build two burrows: one to live in, and another for having babies (which involves laying eggs and incubating them until they hatch)
DID YOU KNOW…An emu is a bird, yet it can’t fly, likewise a penguin is a bird, and it can swim.
DID YOU KNOW…A male emu incubates the eggs, he also turns them over once a day.
DID YOU KNOW…When emus drink, they usually take 70 mouthfuls of water, and lift up their heads between each mouthful.
DID YOU KNOW…When wombats fight each other, they generally try to bite each other on the bum.
DID YOU KNOW…Female wombats are bigger than male wombats, and almost always grumpier, especially if she has a baby.
DID YOU KNOW…Wombats generally renovate old burrows, some of these burrows may have been dug 50, 100 or even 1,000 years ago.

They look cute, but their CLAWS hurt bad…who made up that story that koala bears are cuddly beings??
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Also to help you along on your thought process, the peeps at 1000 Heads have come up with a couple of links for you to draw inspiration from. I would recommend that you click on the below links anyway, it does provide a view into what a fantabulous city Sydney is:

See Sydney Day 1
acebook album
Flickr Set
Sydney Wildlife World
Taronga Zoo (do you know Taronga means ‘water view’ in Aboriginal tounge?)

Have fun snooping folks…and remember…please, please let me know if you can help me find a friend for Dave the lonely Kangaroo!

THIS, is an Echidna , if you’re wondering

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