For an Egyptian shiphand near an Anzac training camp in Cairo during World War I, the unusual creature was something like a monster with the appearance of a giant rat.
Except it wasn't a rat, but a young kangaroo brought from Australia by Indigenous soldier William Charles Westbury.
Hundreds of Australian soldiers smuggled native animals overseas with them during World War I.
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