Which animal served as an example for the crouch start in sprinting?

A crouch start is a type of body position that sprinters take up before beginning their race. It involves the body being held in a crouched pose before springing off of the back foot.

This start is preferred by athletes as it allows more horizontal velocity to be generated in the running motion - this is because of the increased force that the body takes off at.

For several years Mr Coombes one of the great experts on athletics in the world conducted a thorough investigation of the crouch start, and it is now admitted that Bobby McDonald, a famous Australian sprinter, was the first athlete to use it. It is stated he got the idea from watching the kangaroo, and for years it was known as the 'kangaroo start'.

There's also another version that states Charles H. Sherrill was the athlete who used the crouch start in his first race in 1887. The starter, thinking that Sherrill did not know how to start, held up the race to give him instructions.