Kangaroo
12-09-2009, 08:20 PM
Captain Cook , a British navigator , was the first European to reach Australia's east coast . While the ship was lying off Australia , his sailors brought a strange animal on board . Cook wanted to know the name of this unusual creature , so some of the sailors were asked to go ashore and ask the native inhabitants.When the natives were asked to name the animal , they said , "Kangaroo" . The sailors , of course , believed " Kangaroo" was the animal's name . Years later , the truth was discovered . "Kangaroo" means "I don't understand".But today the animal is still called a kangaroo in English
