Australia Remastered: Wild Australians
Episode 1 - Red Kangaroo
Sunday 30 August at 6pm
The red kangaroo is iconic-famous for its striking gait and boxing matches. But there is more to the kangaroo family than just one famous face. Kangaroo Tales, hosted and narrated by Aaron Pedersen, tells the story of how these marsupials began millions of years ago when Australia was covered in lush rainforest. The first kangaroos looked more like possums that had descended from the trees and learnt to hop. From these humble beginnings, kangaroos have spread across the continent and taken on a bewildering variety of shapes and forms. An ancient and dry continent, Australia is a tough place to survive but kangaroos have proven to be up to the challenge- changing the way they look, reproduce, grow, move and even respond to fear in order to survive in this land of extremes.