A closer look
Kangaroos are incapable of walking backwards due to their muscular tails and specialized hind legs, a quirky biological limitation that led to their inclusion on the Australian national coat of arms to symbolize a nation always moving forward. While this makes for a fantastic piece of patriotic trivia, it also means that if you encounter an aggressive marsupial in the outback, it only has one direction to launch its incredibly powerful, clawed feet. Traveling to Australia essentially requires accepting that absolutely everything in the local ecosystem, including the national symbols, is biologically optimized to ruin your day if you happen to wander too far from the safety of a heavily populated coastal city
