Completely off the subject and relating to nothing in particular

Animal Planet, one of the few channels I get in English, and one to which I've become relatively addicted, has an afternoon show about wildlife rescue. In the episode today, a kangaroo was being rescued from a mud pit. To my amazement, I found out that these bouncy animals are called macropods, and there are like a zillion types: kangaroos (3 types), wallaroo (3 types), tree kangaroo (8 types), wallaby (26 types), monjon (1 type), dorcopsis (6 types), pademelon (4 types), bettong (5 types), potoroo (3 types), rat kangaroo (1 type).

Whoa!