Australian cyclist's GoPro captures smiling quokka's adorable leap
Published in Weird News
ROTTNEST ISLAND, Australia (UPI) -- An Australian cyclist who stopped to look at a quokka chasing after him was wearing a camera that captured the seemingly-smiling animal's leap into his arms.
Campbell Jones, 21, of Landsdale, said he was riding his bicycle on Rottnest Island, off the coast of Western Australia, when he stopped for a second look at the cat-sized marsupial he had passed moments before.
Jones said he snapped a few pictures of the quokka and was about to leave when the animal chased after him.
"As I walked back to my bike, the quokka chased after me," he told Perth NOW. I put down the GoPro and it jumped at me as if to say come 'come back.'
The GoPro camera on Jones' helmet snapped a picture of the quokka appearing to smile at the cyclist while leaping through the air into his arms.
Jones posted the photo to Instagram, along with a selfie he snapped with the quokka and a picture of him snuggling with the creature in the road.
Copyright 2017 by United Press International
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