Hip hip hooray for kangeroos!

[TheOrange 0]

I think kangeroos are brilliant. It is a reason to go want to go to Australia. Are they friendly?

 

[frannyo 2]

The certainly deserve their own thread.

[jared 0]

I don't know if they are friendly - but they are tasty.

[frannyo 2]

...as in phwoooooooaaahhhh! tasty??

[jared 0]

tie me kangaroo down sport, tie me kangaroo down...

 

No I'm not really into bondage and I'm a NZer so its sheep for me anyway.

 

No, I mean Oishii tasty - Kangaroo was on the buffet when I visited.

[frannyo 2]

Those thugs EAT THEM!?! Poor darlings.

[slow 0]

Tasty?? Hidoi...

 

When I met them at National park in Melborune, they didn't go away but just gazed at us and asked us "who are you?, what are you doing here?"

I just smiled them. They are cute.

[damian 0]

very tasty, much better than beef. I eat it often (in Australia).

 

I have used this pic on the forum before.

 

[Ocean11 0]

They used to be friendly until they ran into this bully.

 

 

Then skippy give 'im a good hard kick in the groin.

[Yuki's Passion 1]

[Dims 0]

It looks like those last two are having a great time in the mosh pit, listening to some kangaroo metal, high fiveing and having a good head bang

[KlingKlang 1]

Fabulous pictures.

[ProbablyaCrazyPerson 2]

That top one looks like a big pear.

[Ocean11 0]

Starving kangaroos attack city residents

By Rod McGuirk in Canberra

08 July 2004

 

 

The city authorities in Canberra warned residents yesterday to beware of starving kangaroos bounding through the Australian capital in search of food, following reports that the animals were attacking people and pet dogs.

 

Wildlife authorities said the usually harmless, grass-eating eastern gray kangaroos were being driven by hunger from the drought-stricken countryside around Canberra, into the city of 320,000, where conditions are greener.

 

The Australian Capital Territory Environment Department warned residents to steer clear of the animals after a woman was attacked by a kangaroo while walking her poodle in a city park last week and another woman reported that a kangaroo drowned her golden retriever in a pond and seriously injured another two dogs.

 

The dogs had been swimming when a large kangaroo appeared on the bank and entered the water, according to the pets' owner Christine Canham. The kangaroo then "held her under the water with its back legs and drowned her as we watched helpless," Ms Canham wrote in a letter to The Canberra Times.

 

A government wildlife ecologist, Murray Evans, said he was concerned that city residents might forget that the beloved symbol of Australia was also a wild animal that can grow as tall and heavy as a man.

 

"Kangaroos don't come bounding out of the bush looking for people to attack, but they are less likely to back down when hungry," he said.

 

(The Independent)

 

Cor, I wish we had starving kangeroos around here. I was kept up half the night last night by somebody's laifu-sutairu wanko that needed drowning in a pond by a large marsupial.)

[excuse me 0]

But they have such rubbish front "hands".

[dale#1 1]

I thought I remembered a kangeroo thread. I've just been watching a docu here about kangeroos and they look like they can be really vicious dudes when they want to be. Real cute though.

[sunrise 0]

I suspect it may have been the mating season rather than hunger that drove that roo to drown the dog. Hunger has mearly driven the roos closer into town. Still, I could be wrong. I once believed that dingos would never attack babies too, a long time ago...

[damian 0]

drowned a bloody dog!!!?? WTF. What kind of deranged roo would see a dog, jump in the water and set about drowning it? Bugger me.

[snowboard_freak 0]

Yeah those kangaroos have got a crazy hard kick in their back legs.

 

I once counted over 100 dead kangaroos on the side of the road between Canberra and Jindy(only a couple of hours drive).