‘They’re wild animals’: Kangaroo kills elderly man
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2024
- Australian Reptile Park Manager of Life Sciences Hayley Shute says “kangaroos aren’t the fluffy icon of Australia that they’re perceived to be” after a 77-year-old-man dies from a kangaroo attack in Western Australia.
This is the first kangaroo-caused death since 1936.
“They’re wild animals and especially male kangaroos, much of their behaviour is about battling one another, trying to get to that alpha position,” Ms Shute told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
Ms Shute advised people to always keep a safe distance from wild kangaroos.
Wild animals should not be kept as pets they're Wild for a reason.
I'm South African and we have _all_ the 'wild animal kept as pets' stories - lions, leopards, baboons - oh, and the hippo who bit his 'owner' in half. The baboon, if I recall correctly, took his 'owners' friend's throat out. And the lion had been raised with a bottle. They all had to be destroyed.
_Wild?_
After being held in captivity for committing no crime, these animals are *livid!*
Keeping a wild kangaroo as a pet is an obviously reisky business, not recomended.
Extremely risky and stupid of him.
I agree . I keep away from them .
not always the case, not if his name is Skip and has his own TV show.
RIP. Never trust a grown buck kangaroo. Those old buck Roos can jag a person open pretty quickly, they can split a dogs guts open if they get a grip onto the dog’s collar. I’m surprised it doesn’t happened more often.
Eastern Grey's are cuter and less dangerous.
@@felix121984 Eastern Greys are the largest and the MOST dangerous kangaroos, no doubt about it.
Was it a male kangaroo? Male kangaroos kept as pets can see their owners as members of the mob, as they mature they can challenge their owners for superiority. They do not understand that humans are different, it's important that people realise this, or there can be consequences.
Can't they discern hamans from other kangaroos? I mean, we look obviously different.
@@typingcat animals' eyes aren't nearly as good as ours.
@@After_Pasta did I say birds?
I meant animals, as understood by the general public.
Kangaroo eyesight isn't that great, their field of vision is good, but not visual acuity.
@@After_Pasta I don't know what kind of science you're reading, but animals in general do not have better vision than humans.
Animals have better night vision, keener eyesight for moving objects, and better field of view. They have poor colour vision, and visual acuity.
@@ayush885 ... I am studying kangaroo and etc animal eyes ... as they are around me all the time ... I live in a wildlife corridor ..
What I am seeing with (Eastern Grey) kangaroos ... is that they have big span vision lenses with a sharp zoom ... but if they come up to my house then the zoom fails them ... they are nervous and perplexed ...
I can see they want a drink of water, from the bird bath 1 metre away, because they can smell it in the air ... sniff sniff sniff, where is it !!! ...
But their eyes zoom fails to locate it ... they are looking around ... and looking around ... (when the bird bath water is just about under their nose) ... no can locate ... so they go away thirsty ...
(but then if I quickly take out a bucket of water and call him back ... he comes back to investigate ... and drinks the water that he was looking for ... )
So, kangaroo visual acuity ... I call zoom ...
And it seems to work well for them, at from a distance, but not up close
RIP old bloke. Nothing more scary than being confronted by a big red. The old bloke was obviously confident but what ever happened it ended in tragety. The advice is good keep your distance if your walking through the scrub be aware they can be laying down and won't take it kindly if you stumbled across their hollow.
One death since 1936!! how many humans have killed humans during that time.
At least the Roo didn't pull an *Amber Heard* and run crying on social media claiming the old Man was beating _it_ instead of the other way around!
Unlucky, RIP old fella.
Get some Kangaroos to Ukraine.
@@keplermission4947 Ukraine can get stuffed
@@crispy1660 Exactly produced the highest paid
Comedian in HIS STORY .
REFUGEES here in EN GELDED LAND ,
Splitting families UP
and going back for
holidays ,
YOU WOULDN'T MAKE IT UP .
The Full Frontal version of Skippy was the best
What's that skip?
You found a nuclear warhead???
Oh noo dads gonna be pissed!
They were the days.
@@cybasmuggla3697 🤣🤣🤣 those days were great, too bad shows like Full Frontal would cancelled in today's society since a small number of ppl with issues ruin it for all of us
Adult male kangaroos in particular are VERY powerful. Just LOOK at them! Further, the kangaroo evolved in a very harsh environment and can and will protect themselves and their interests as THEY see them. Pretending to oneself that they are "pets" is as idiotic as all the tourists at Yellowstone trying to cozy up to the bison and grizzlies. Be respectful and distant; YOU are supposed to be homo sapiens and have intelligence - but it sure doesn't show.
My dad told me once he watched a big red Kangaroo chase a friend of his around a car before the guy managed to get inside of the car then the Roo left
We used to look after Joey's when found them alive inside mother's pouch when hit by cars.
You play with them and wrestle and box with them until get bigger then let them go as they are a wild animal and shouldn't be kept.
Ever had any come back and trash your house cause you didn't treat them right as kids?
Having ran into a big red a few years ago, I can tell you folks, it is very tough animal. Note what kind of vehicle I was driving.
Im sure kangaroos kill a few people every year. Not too many survive when ya have one flying through your windscreen at 100kmh
haha you guys windscreen. we say windshield
Skippy never behaved like that.
Sorry for the man RIP Sir. Even if you rear a skinless joey the are still a wild animal when they are old enough set them free for your and family safe
0:00 As a Canadian him saying "if I can use" sounded like "fucking use" and I was like isn't this a news station? Lol
Tut tut tut Skippy has a lot to answer for. RIP Old Fella .
He kept it as a pet. He was in his late 70s. Unless he just moved to Australia and suddenly decided to have one as a pet, I'm going to guess that he knew what kangaroos are capable of. It is possible the animal just switched or made defensive by something the man did , and killed him. If he was in his 80s, and knew the behaviour of kangaroos isn't is possible he recently received some sort of health news, or had some mental health challenges that made death by kangaroo a more desirable outcome than the alternative? I'm not saying that this is what happened. But just to report that a man died because of a kangaroo leaves out A LOT of information, as well as leaves a lot to the imagination.
I left another comment elsewhere commenting on what we don't know. I'm a bit too lazy to write it again, but i agree this raises questions for which the article gives us no answers. Of course i too wonder if he recognised the potential risk and if he thought that it didn't apply to this particular roo for some reason, and if so, why. What i somewhat suspect is that "kept it as a pet" might lead us to think X Y and Z based on dogs, but i remember a woman of about his age telling me that she had a wallaby that would visit her verandah for food. I'm not sure we would say it was a pet; it was free to come and go as it pleased. I am not sure if she hand fed it or kept a respectable distance and so forth. And i do recognise that wallabies don't have the same reputation as some male kangaroos. But, to be perfectly honest, although i grew up on a farm, where it wasn't unusual to encounter certain wild animals, including brown snakes, i really don't remember a) encountering roos in the wild or b) hearing that roos were rough.
I'm not sure why. I did watch the Leyland Brothers, etc! It's only really from UA-cam clips I watched relatively recently that I realised that some male kangaroos are like rippling with muscle as though they were a beefcake on steroids and possessed of much the same demeanour.
FWIW there have also been other recent reports of attacks on the east coast, where they certainly weren't being treated as pets or fed, but are said to have kinda descended on the town, where they have been breeding and getting up to mischief - a kangaroo mafia in the suburbs, if you will. Apparently one put an elderly person in hospital - an unprovoked attack, this is probably within the last 8 weeks or so.
I seem to remember being reasonably shocked at that, so perhaps being Australian isn't enough to be savvy, and we need a petrifying 70s style PSA with lots of Tarantino-esque red paint.
Seriously though, i feel sad for the elderly man; my guess is that he was isolated and perhaps a little lonely, and for whatever reason, he believed he could trust this particular animal and/or was willing to take a risk. Perhaps he raised it from the time it was a joey, who knows. May he rest in peace. 🙏
@@mothratemporalradio517 I understand wild animals are potentially dangerous. Bottom line for me in regards to this video is I really want to say it makes me mad that news media is essentially fear mongering by sharing this story with so few details. Yes people need to be aware of the dangers, but I believe there are also people out there now terrified to see a kangaroo at a hefty distance. I find it even more frustrating that I can't say that because I chose to watch the video. Marketers of news media are just so darn crafty at hooking me in to watch their video.
@@kristalynncreates appreciate you sharing that with me. If i could try to reassure you, sensation is the bread and butter of tabloids, and i like to think most of us take it with a pinch of salt. Those who don't know how to - admittedly there's a bit of a crossover here with Fox viewers from the US. Interestingly i find that actually a majority of people, even in stories like this, will often defend the nature of the wild animal. I would be surprised if people were terrified of roos after seeing this, but i do think perhaps we should be more cautious than i had expected, and that isn't necessarily a bad thing, maybe a little bit of fear can instill a little bit of respect. A respectful distance seems like the sensible outcome in these kind of situations.
I understand your temerity about the way of the tabloid. I have a confession here though - admit that i rather enjoy pulling the leg of those Americans half convinced Australia is full of deadly creatures at every turn, and take every opportunity to warn them about the deadly drop bears. :v
This reminds me I was reading a thing in the Guardian a while back about a new species of spider identified in WA and seem to recall they estimated they have only identified about one third of our spider population! 🕷️🕸️ I don't know how they can know an unknown quantity, if that makes sense (how exactly can you know what you don't know?), but it's still a pretty amazing idea. (I admit this revelation was probably connected to a horrifying photo of a huntsman eating a micro possum in Tassie. I did click on it, despite myself!!!!!) The other thing that gets me about Australian wildlife recently is the unthinkable amount of fauna we have lost in the bushfires. Too mindblowing to think about.
Oh, and they say they think they can bring the Thylacine back within a decade - but i don't approve of that, even if it is possible, the same with the woolly mammoth! Heaven knows what sort of infernal DNA tampering goes on there. I think there should be public referendums about scientific ethics in respect of such developments. Can't see how it's reasonable to bring back the woolly mammoth even if you can. And for the Thylacine, the eco system would need to be taken into account very seriously, at the minimum. I still don't think we should "play God" in this way, but the quote in the piece i watched said, "we play God all the time". Whatever the case, i think we're at the stage with science and technology that there should be some degree of checks and balances with the community about the ethics in question and whether it's in the interests of the planet to do this and that just because you can.
But yes, i mean Sky news (which i think we're on, can't see right now) is always going to focus on hooks to lure us in. And it works, sometimes. I understand how you feel as at times Sky has been responsible for spreading around significant misinformation which i won't even go into. It's Murdoch media. I still watch it from time to time, but i try not to take its overtones too seriously, and think about any context that is missing, especially where this would result in polarised responses. So although i don't feel like this will be bad press for all roos, since few would have one as a "pet", i totally get where you're coming from in terms of the way things are presented and on particular the potential ramifications when people can't take things with a pinch of salt. Plus an Australian dominated viewership is by no means guaranteed - which has been somewhat eye opening at times when the content is on Australian issues.
Thanks for your thoughts and input, and wishing you all the best! Hopefully the roos will be okay. I think they were saying there hasn't been a documented death since the 1930s, so that helps put things in perspective. Cheers! 🐨
Assisted suicide by Kangaroo?
Going swimming with Crocs might have been the better option.
So 1936 and 2022, we should look a roo nets🤣
Kangaroos scare me almost as much as Emus, but would still rather take on a Roo over an Emu.
what's worse? an emu or a cassowary?
@@hubertberrum6242 Emu is worst by a long shot. Cassowary will only rip your front open. Emu had the reputation of the great Australian warrior even before the Emu wars.
You will notice that both Kanga and Emu are on our national coat of arms? Everyone talks about the Kanga, no one dares mention the Emu and with good reason.
@@axle.australian.patriot they sure don't hide their heads
@@hubertberrum6242 Emus, evil critters. I shouldn't even be talking about them :)
@@axle.australian.patriot either that or the eagle
Only a matter of time , I fear the roos now exploding in numbers in the Adelaide Hills . How long until one is startled in a garden . National parks needs to keep them in their national parks. And manage number s . Now nobody is shooting them for dog meat , natives are not eating them. These roos are trashing gardens ,striping orchards worse than rabbits n goats. My 76yr old mother is seriously concerned and we never had roos until the last 10yrs now they are pests. Her words. One positive note they have a regular Albino roo trash her gardens.
My late uncle in the same area had a run in with a big buck 6months before covid he was 79yrs lucky he still could throw something and hit it , cause it wasn't going to leave him alone . Then there is all the motor vehicle accident s.
These are Dangerous animals. NATIONAL PARKS DO YOUR JOB KEEP THEM IN YOUR PARKS thats why we have them
Rule 303 applies here
It has never failed yet.
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@@vexile1239 303 is the old Australian service rifle of the 20th century. They were very popular with bushmen and roo shooters due to availability and their high killing power
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Rule 308 and 223 arnt bad either 😂
They're no joke, I had a really scary close call lately. I ride Racehorses for a living out in Rural Australia, on the track there's always Roos around, mostly females which are dangerous enough because when they cross the track in front of you, the 2 year old young horses shit themselves and can dead stop or whip. It just so happened 2 weeks ago I was riding a horse for the first time on her own, and who came out of the bush to my right other than the HUGE 6ft tall male roo with a scar down his shoulder, it was so quick in my memory it was only a few frames, I'd only seen the faintest outline of his shape in the tall shrub grass, but that was enough for Annie to react like a bullet, but my horse went from a gallop to doing a 180 in a fraction of a second, and the momentum sent me flying, RIGHT into the kangaroo crossing the track in front of me, he spooked and stepped back/forward as if to lunge and attack at me, but as I stood up and stumbled backwards trying to process what had even happened he ran back into the bush, my horse was already galloping full tilt home. If he had wanted to, he could have killed me right there and then before my coworkers and boss could come to rescue me with the buggy.
I'll never forget seeing those claws up close, those things could gut you so fast, God do they deserve respect.
Live by the kangaroo...die by the kangaroo
About time they started fighting back
Leave the kangaroos alone there professional boxer's and ufc fighter's
Skippy didn’t see that coming.
Bloody hilarious when the bloke smacked it in the chops, it looked surprised.
That said, they're nowhere near as savage as those bloody drop bears, pretty tame by comparison.
Officially, *Clementine Ford* is the most savage animal in Australia.
@@dududu5189 To be honest, I totally forgot about her - she'd rip the head off a bear.
Why ask a reptile park worker about a marsupial?
was he alone on his property and this happened and people "found" him like that what other injuries were there cmon
a bit sus, especially if he raised it.
Revenge of the Skippy the bush kangaroo
was he boostered?
Skippy is now on the hop.
RIP thats such a shame. We get them were I work, and the amount of people we have to stop going near them.
I had one family claim, that they came so close they looked like it wanted a hug…
After telling this Family that were here on Holidays, there Wild Animals and no they dont wish to be hugged,after explaining what they Could Do,the mother freaked said something that I didnt quiet understand, to her Family and within a blink, they were all in the Car and the were Out.
It was funny, only I wish people would just keep there distance and just observe,as that in itself is very rewarding.
That still doesn't change the fact that there are 49million 🦘kangaroos🦘 in Australia and 3.5million people in Uruguay which means if the 🦘kangaroos 🦘were to invade Uruguay each person will have to fight 14 🦘kangaroos🦘🤟💀🤟and kangaroos can and will fuck your shit right up!
Oh no , I’m so sorry for his family 🌻
it does not matter if it is a wallaby or a kangaroo, as soon as they are a year old and dont need you they can and most likely will turn on you, naturally the roo will do more damage but the wallaby can still do you some hurts.
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I can heartily recommend eating them. The roos , that is.
I see kangaroos and I see a way to diminish world hunger.
Are they tasty?
@@edwardbellingham3509 Very tasty dark lean meat,like Venison.
Roo tail soup = yummo
They make good jerky too
@@edwardbellingham3509 as with any animal , it comes down to what they’ve been eating 🙂
What’s that skip? 🙃sorry - old man - but …..strange way to go huh.
Jake pauls next pay per view.
Very sad. They are wild animals so always be wary.
I hate kangaroos. They are the doofiest animals and have no charm whatsoever. Dont Know why their so revered im australia.
Because they are UNIQUE to AUSTRALIA . BUT YOU KNEW THAT ,DIDNT YOU ??????
Ever been to a local bogan hangout?
@@andreikondisenko6089 they are in plague proportions in some areas in New Zealand .
They are dumb as dog shit, Useless fkn animals .
.222 sorts them out.
Nice 223 H/P does the job.
Bet they put the first Australian down.
I blame Albo / the covid vaccination / RBA interest rate rises / foreign immigration
Goddamn it Dababy
Make me a whip out of ol reds hide.
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Cull SHARKS
😢 sad
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Fortunately in America we have guns to protect our farms, family and selves.
So do we in Australia mate .You must have a Licence for appropriate weapon , Stored and secured in appropriate manner . Very little difference between America and Australia with gun laws . I own property and dont allow gunfire because it disturbs wildlife and i enjoy bird songs and Kangaroos feeding close by . But mate , these are wild animals and should be allowed freedom . I own 3 guns , high calibre 7.62x54 Mosin Nagants and only fire at rifle range . But of course ,if i or person was in danger ,thats different , aye .
@@andreikondisenko6089 every state in America has different laws and some cities also. There is a lot of litigation, but the Supreme Court has ruled for the 2nd Amendment under our constitution.
Are guns legal based on states in Australia? Are guns legal in Tasmania?
@@Spike-qt7tx guns are legal in all of Australia? Why does every yank think guns are illegal here ffs 🙄
@@jarradbaker8200 the tasmania incident. The NRA tells us that. Hilary Clinton wanted to changed our laws to yours.
@@Spike-qt7tx alls they did was have a buy back of semi auto rifles, you can still get them you just need a special license, all other hunting rifles and handguns are perfectly legal, long as you have the right license
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Good job Skip.
C'mon evil Skip. 🦘🦘🦘🦘
🦘 No way, we are very peaceful creatures! 🦘 🦘 🦘