Maras - classic or dud

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Maras are another animal I saw in Fota Wildlife Park. Aside from the endlessly hilarious fact that they have the same name as Charles Haughey's Press Secretary, they are a fascinatingly cute hybrid of rabbit and kangaroo. So I say: Classic.

― DV, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Marah, philedelphia rock type band=classic Don't know much about the maras.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Whoa Nelly. Kangaroos and rabbits? But ones a rodent and the other a marsupial. How? Does it suckle? Ween? Crawl around on its mama's fur into a pouch though it is barely a foetus.

Or is it parallel evolution?

― Pete, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Maras sounds very much like a quokka, a creature only found on Rottnest Island off the coast of western Australia, Except they are more like a Gerbil and a kangaroo.

― cabbage, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

quokka = similar to a il2c35ygfbp1

― mark s, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Quokkas are cool, they look a bit like giant rats, hence the name of the island, discovered by Dutchmen back in the day.

Unfortunately the local hoons decided that a good game to play while drunk was quokka soccer, which basically involved kicking the friendly little creatures as far as possible, the twunts.

― cabbage, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Does anyone have a link to a picture of a Mara?

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Here: Mara

That one doesn't look quite so kangarabbity. But in real life they hop along like a kangaroo but have ears that look a bit like a rabbits.

Admittedly rabbits hop along as well, so arguably the Mara just looks like a cross between a rabbit and a larger rabbit.

― DV, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

note socially progressive rearing behaviour: a "crèche"

― mark s, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They look funny. Dunno about "cute."

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That is, basically, a rabbit, surely. I mean I like rabbits so classic and all that. But even so.

― Tom, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They reminded me a bit of kangaroos when I saw them.

― DV, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Aww, they're odd but quite cute.

― DG, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have Learned Something today.

― maria, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah dv and his vaugley cute furry thingys

― anthony, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It looks like someone started off making a rabbit, and then their attention wandered and they just finished it off with a round bit.

― Magnus, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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