Updated 5:59 p.m., March 28:

There is a logical explanation! According to MLive, the kangaroo belongs to Exotic Zoo, a traveling educational animal show that was visiting a local birthday party.

Originally posted 10:12 a.m.:

A viral tweet originally posted yesterday shows a video of a man in what appears to be Detroit’s University District walking (umm, make that running) with what appears to be a kangaroo on a leash.

Sure, this isn’t tiger in the Packard Plant-level weird, but it’s up there.

We will have more developments on this breaking kangaroo news as they become available.

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Leyland “Lee” DeVito is the editor in chief of Detroit Metro Times since 2016. His writing has also been published in CREEM, VICE, In These Times, and New City.

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