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For Fun, Kangaroo Tortured By Group of Young Men
Kangaroo attack caught on tape |
The RSPCA is searching for a group of young men who videoed a kangaroo being beaten.
The video shows a person kicking and punching the kangaroo which looks to be stunned.
The animal tires to defend itself but is eventually knocked out as the person filming the sickening attack laughs.
Native wildlife expert Steve McLeod believes the animal was injured prior to the attack.
“The kangaroo is very disoriented,” he said.
“It is very unusual for a kangaroo to fight like that as they invariably flee.
“I would hazard a guess that it has been knocked over by the car and injured.
“Certainly it has been stunned in some way.”
The RSPCA across Australia has joined forces to launch a nationwide appeal to catch the cowards who shot the appalling footage.
RSPCA Queensland spokesman Michael Beatty asked any body who knew those responsible to contact the organisation.
“Thankfully this sickening footage has now been removed from the website where it was first seen,” he said.
“The next stage is to ensure that those responsible for this film are brought to justice.”
In August, a koala was attacked and magpies were found nailed to a tree.
RSPCA contacts:
Queensland 1300 852 188
Western Australia (08) 9209 9300
New South Wales (02) 9770 7555
Australian Capital Territory (02) 6287 8100
South Australia (03) 8231 6931
Tasmania (03) 6332 8200
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A koala has survived being struck by a car traveling at 60 mph. The marsupial is being called the luckiest koala in all of Australia, even though he has suffers from chlamydia.
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Kangaroo Farts!
According to scientists, Kangaroo farts are fighting global warming.
Thanks to a special bacteria in their stomachs, kangaroos do not emit harmful methane gas when they let off a stinker.
Here are the facts:
A kangaroo is a marsupial
Tehre are some 63 living species of Kangaroo. Including the Red Kangaroo, the Antilopine Kangaroo, and the Eastern and Western Grey Kangaroo wallabies, tree-kangaroos, wallaroos, pademelons and the Quokka
Kangaroos are endemic to the continent of Australia, are found in Australia and New Guinea.
The kangaroo is an Australian icon: it is featured on the Australian coat of arms on some of its currency and is used by many Australian organisations,
Kangaroos live in groups called mobs.
Young kangaroos sometimes box playfully to pass the time. Adult males box to determine dominance, with the strongest male becoming the head of the mob.
They are not farmed to any extent, but wild kangaroos are shot for meat and fur,
While running at speeds of about 12 mph, these kangaroos are able to reach 35 mph in short bursts.
Kangaroos can be the size of a rat or as tall as a man.
Bucks (male kangaroos) "kickbox" in order to win mates. Two male rivals clasp arms and attempt to kick each other in the belly. They are able to stand on their tail while using both hind legs to kick
A female is called a doe, flyer, jill, or roo;
A male kangaroo is called a buck, boomer, jack, or old man

The western gray kangaroo Macropus fuliginosus buck has been nicknamed "the stinker" because it smells like curry! 

Kangaroos cannot walk backwards!
A mother kangaroo can produce milk of two different types to feed two different babies (joeys) at the same time: a joey that has emerged from the pouch but is still nursing and a newborn!
Females have one baby at a time, which at birth is smaller than a cherry. According to scientists, Kangaroo farts are fighting global warming. ... more -
Wombat Facts
Wombats Rock!
This mammal is a marsupial,
When wombats fight each other, they generally try to bite each other on the bum.
Female wombats are bigger than male wombats
Wombats generally renovate old burrows, some of these burrows may have been dug 50, 100 or even 1,000 years ago.
Wombats fall asleep on their sides, but end up rolling over onto their back, with their four feet sticking up in the air.
A wombat may spend two-thirds of its life underground
When a wombat is born it is the size of a pea, and weighs only 1 gram.
A wombat can run at 40 kph, but only for up to 90 seconds
Wombats teeth have no roots and grow through its lifetime.
A wombat baby remains in its mother's pouch for about five months before emerging.
Some species (the northern hairy-nosed wombats) are now critically endangered, while others (the common or coarse-haired wombat) are still hunted as vermin.
The name wombat comes from the Eora Aboriginal community
Wombats are herbivores, their diet consisting mostly of grasses, sedges, herbs, bark and roots.
One defense of a wombat against a predator (such as a Dingo) underground is to crush it against the roof of the tunnel suffocating the predator.
Its primary defense is its toughened rear hide with most of the posterior made of cartilage.
Wombats are native only to Australia.
Wombats can live from about 5 years to over 30 years.
A wombat burrow can be as long as 20 metres. Wombats Rock! This mammal is a marsupial, When wombats fight each other, they generally try to bite each other on the bum. ... more -
Museum Vandal proves to be Possum
A possum was found to be responsible for damage of priceless artifacts in an Australian museum of antiquity.
*Incidentally this is not a misspelling of Opossum, there is a difference.
Opossum - n. an American marsupial that has a ratlike prehensile tail and hind feet with an opposable thumb.
Possum - n.
1. tree-dwelling Australian marsupial that typically has a prehensile tail.
2. INFORMAL an opossum. A possum was found to be responsible for damage of priceless artifacts in an Australian museum of antiquity. ... more -
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