Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe DODGEVILLE, Wis., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- What's reddish, about 5 feet tall with a big curved tail -- the sheriff of Iowa County, Wis., thinks it's a roaming kangaroo or smaller cousin, a wallaby. "Well, at least we are treating it as being the real thing," Sheriff Steve Michek told the Wisconsin State Journal. Michek said his officers received several reports of sightings from "reliable" people of a kangaroo hopping along Highways 18 and 151 near Dodgeville Monday. Advertisement No one has reported a kangaroo missing in icy Wisconsin. Kangaroos are native to Australia and are not cold weather animals but one could maneuver through snowdrifts by hopping up to 30 feet in a single bound. The marsupials are nocturnal and generally don't like humans. Zoo experts warn the animal could die of exposure in the frigid January winter weather. Last month, an exotic emu, a large ostrich-like bird, was captured west of Dodgeville. A sheriff's advisory said the kangaroo should not be approached and is consider dangerous.
