Steele,

Unfortunately 'roos are among the least intelligent of animals, in the "Skippy" series the production team had to train 7 'roos to do parts of simple tricks, fortunately, it wasn't hard to get 7 that looked identical and bright Skippy did his tricks.

//Unfortunately 'roos are among the least intelligent of animals, in the "Skippy" series the production team had to train 7 'roos to do parts of simple tricks, fortunately, it wasn't hard to get 7 that looked identical and bright Skippy did his tricks.//

I believe they also made use of a taxidermied roo paw on a stick, for things that the dumb roos were just too thick to figure out. Ahh, the magic of television.

Read a semi amusing article a while back on roos.
Volvo had a team of engineers and self drive cars in Australia working
on sensor matters.
All went well and they left for Sweden. One of their cars was left
behind and was used by the company.
One day it crashed into a kangaroo. It did not detect it.
So the team and cars came back to sort out the problem.
The accident was caused because the obstacle detection system did not
expect to see animals falling out of the sky.
Software changes were made.

Bazz,

That reminds me of two very lucky blokes from Glen Innes, who were travelling along the Gwydir Highway and as they went through a cutting a 'roo jumped onto the car from on high, went through the windshield and joined them for the crash, fortunately, the car had a soft top and the 'roo ripped his way out so they only got a few claw marks and some slight injuries from the crash.
The car wasn't so lucky!!