For our final video of the day, we have a two-minute clip of a very gutsy man rescuing a big male kangaroo who was caught in a metal cable. All’s well that ends well.
Kangaroos are reputed to be dangerous, for they can kick you hard. But I found only two reported human deaths due to kangaroos. The animal most likely to kill you in Australia, according to Wikipedia’s “animal attacks in Australia” article, is snakes, with between 3 and 10 deaths per year.
Comment by Greg Mayer
Notice that the last part of the video is a repeat of the middle of the video, in which Chris succeeds in removing some of the cable, but not all. The repeated video zooms a bit to the kangaroo’s upper body, so you can’t see the still attached cable, visible when first shown.
I hope the reason they duplicated the video was because, for some reason, they did not get video of the actual freeing of the kangaroo. If that’s the case, they should have skipped the nature-fake, and just explained that they didn’t get video of the kangaroo going free.
If they did not actually free the kangaroo, I applaud Chris’s efforts to free it, but decry the video producer’s (not the video taker’s) faking of a successful release.
GCM
From (very old) memories at the center of ‘roo and human fights is usually a dog.
Dogs HATE kangaroos and vice versa. I think most kerfuffles involve owners rescuing one species or the other.
D.A.
NYC
The Kangaroos I saw were small and friendly. They were not even slightly dangerous. I did see (from a car) a big one jump over a road. Very impressive.
In this kind of video, I can never figure out why the person filming doesn’t put down the camera and help the other person do the right thing.