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Published: 2012-05-06 15:48:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 1022; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 9
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That’s what happens when I get bored…© by me
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Believable evolution for a small species of kangaroo
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I think the only problem would be that kangaroos can’t move their hind legs independently.
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wow amazingly cool i could imagine seeing on eof thees guys irl
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Is that a sapient marsupial? It reminds me of something I saw in a book about evolution once, where they had a concept of "humans" evolved from koala-like creatures. They said intelligent marsupials would make "much more sense" because the brain of the young could continue to develop in the pouch of the mother and thus grow very large without putting too much strain on the birth process
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If any marsupial would evolve to a human, the kangaroos, with their more advanced brain than other marsupials, would do it.
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Tell that to Doug the Koala Man! [link]
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Well, that's true, Koalas do have the binocular vision and thumbs part down pat, but not so much the intelligence part, Koalas are apparently among the least intelligent of mammals. Another fun fact, echidnas are Australia's smartest native mammals, with perhaps the exception of various native rodents. I do wonder how smart platypi are, being so relatively little evolved since the cretaceous.
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re: I wonder how smart platypi are, being so relatively little evolved since the Cretaceous.
Huh, that's a good question...Do you mean that there was less pressure to become brighter back then because of dinosaurs' more limited intellectual abilities, relative to mammals? Hm, somebody should do a study of platypus intelligence. Personally, it's hard for me to imagine a more noble goal.
Also, [link]
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Well, my point was, echidnas are much more recent innovations, appearing around the miocene, so they are apparently more specialised. The platypus seems to be less specialised and more primitive, most primitive animals have smaller brains than their sucessors. Incidentally, since then, I saw a comparison of mammalian brain-size, platypi have bigger brains than opossum.
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Well all i can say is: "be bored more oftenly!" 
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