The story of a red kangaroo and it's life in the hot dry regions of desert around Ayers Rock. Rufus hopped as quickly as he could across the dry red earth and jumped head-first into his mother's pouch before she knew what he was doing. His mother tried to push him out, quite gently, because he was too big to fit into the pouch any longer. He was almost eight moths old and it was time he hopp…