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Indeed, the best footage here is captured at night, from the slinkings of the bizarre horned viper to the evasive tactics of the lesser jerboa, a tiny rodent with kangaroo-like hind legs.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2013

Caliban becomes a two-headed creature equipped with a kangaroo-like pouch containing his own captious elder brother.

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2011

Relocated deserts will give rise to new animals capable of enduring for months without water, like the cameloid yet kangaroo-like desert leaper, able to store fat and other nutrients in its tail.

From Time Magazine Archive

Also vanishing, at least in wild areas: the koala "Teddy bear" and the Tasmanian wolf, a zebra-striped, carnivorous marsupial that often hops kangaroo-like on its hind legs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Down went the rifle with a thud and with a shrieked "Oh golly, oh golly, oh golly!" a black streak cleared the open ground with kangaroo-like leaps and shot into the forest.

From The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades by Davis, J. Watson