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Edit: Well now I know Aussies are extremely nice lol. Thanks to The Dollop, I also know about a lot of your absurd history! All of your wildlife are on my "lifers" list, so I'll be visiting if nothing!
You probably won’t see this exact thing (I’ve lived in Aus for 14 years and have never seen wild Kangaroos) but you’ll definitely see some crazy wildlife, just the birds you see everyday are amazing.
I live in the suburbs north of Sydney, I’ve seen Turkeys and Wallabies around plus a Koala when my family drove south for a holiday but I haven’t seen Kangaroos outside of the zoo.
You can see them in the wild literally 15 mins from the centre of Melbourne. There’s a group of them, and wallabies, that live in Yarra Bend park (Kew).
Seriously? I have seen so many and now (at roo’s)I live with 3 Wally’s, far too many parrots 🦜 (can never have enough parrots honestly) and a host of other wildlife: example, wombats and devils.
On top of that I have the cutest skink family that lives with me. And there is some blue tongues hanging about. Love AUS! It’s the best!
They are everywhere around Durras , Murramarang national park and long beach and Maloneys beach. I lived there and they were in my lawn and on the streets every day and night
Are you in the CBD? I live in a city/town of 80k people and we seen 9 in one spot driving home yesterday lol. Even in busy rural areas they are usually everywhere. Also had one get itself stuck on the rooftop car park of a shopping centre here a few months back.
I've been to school camps about 3 hours drive from Melbourne. At that point every day at 6 am the tribe of kangaroos will hop through your camp grounds without any fear.
Fuck the kangaroos. If that Plover has chicks and a nest nearby, that’s what is going to take you out, not the kangaroos. Those birds are nasty as fuck! Damn ground magpies.
Agreed! When we were kids we lived next door to a golf driving range and the balls would always go over the net fence and into our property. We'd collect bags full of golf balls and return them because the owners would give us $1 per bag so we could play the pinball machine 😅 Anyways, them damn plover birds would swoop and attack us while we were collecting them, it was as if we were stealing their eggs. It was totally worth it at the time though lol
No. These are all eastern greys. Reds distribution begins in the far west of the continent and ceases near the interior. They are considerably larger. If you see a reel with a red in it and there is no scale or perspective, you can pick them out by their coarser/more angular features. Greys are cute and cuddly looking for the most part.
Western grey and red kangaroos have overlapping distribution. They both live throughout the west and the interior. However they prefer different habitats.
Then two blueing in the back is accurate. Once saw two reds having a go on the side of the road. As our car approached, one of them turned to look and the other just double kicked him clean over the barrier, backwards down the hill.
That is creepy AF. The roos staring while that row goes on in the background. I felt like they were judging and the person filming did not measure up in sone way.
Yeah sure, but I bet they’ve never seen some homeless dude walking down the sidewalk and taking a piss at the same time. https://giphy.com/gifs/l4pTkyF1QfRIpjPVK
Is this round Jervis Bay area? Sanctuary Point maybe? It's robably not but the street looks familiar 😅 we moved from Bankstown (no kangaroos) to Vincentia (lots of kangaroos) they would be on our front lawn every evening, they'd even let us feed them it was the coolest thing ever! I now live in Wollongong, we don't see any roo's but we see deer on the mountains or in the middle of the broad late at night 🙄
So real, mums are at peace with the world and the angry bird species around them. Dad’s thinking about keeping them pregnant by punching on in the background.
Those are the males fighting in the video and they don't have pouches. I've never seen females fight, only the smaller, younger males. The big boys just flex a bit and no one messes with them.
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