Great video of kangaroos

[Betrisher]

A friend posted this on facebook today.

https://www.facebook.com/trish.l.brown.9

I thought I'd share it so you can see what a big mob of kangaroos looks like in the wild. They really are beautiful and much bigger than they appear on film. I've seen a kangaroo take a five-foot fence in its stride without missing a beat and I never get sick of watching them move: they're SO graceful.

If you check out the countryside in the video, you'll see why 'roos are such a problem for graziers. Cattle have to live in that country too and there's only so much 'grass' to go round. Since the 'roos live there, they're much more efficient at using up the existing food, so the cattle miss out. Hence the periodic 'roo-culling exercises that go on. These days, it's mostly done by blokes hanging out of helicopters with high-powered rifles. It's a hateful practice, but when you consider that only something like 15% of our country is arable, something's gotta give... I suppose...

Anyway, do enjoy the Australian national animal. We think they're pretty cool.

 

[Doublete]

I clicked the link it only sent me to her fb page. No video though.
I wanna see

 

[Flboy]

Sorry, unable to find the video, would love to see it!

 

[Allee]

If you scroll down past Trish's incredible leather craft and past her friends page to the shared Tom Barnes post and click on the video I think you'll be able to see the kangaroos.

Trish, thank you for sharing! I was astounded by the number of kangaroos, definitely a mob. They are so graceful and powerful! The landscape looks a lot like Texas ranch land except for magnificent wild life. I can see how your graziers could view them as a nuisance but they are so much easier on the eyes than the feral hogs our local ranchers complain about. I'm glad I'll never have to witness a, 'roo culling'.

Trish, you a very talented leather crafter, I love your designs.

 

[Doublete]

I still am not seeing it... Thinking it might be set to friends only? I can see a couple posts with pictures of the leather craft but no videos and no links...
Not even many recent posts.

 

[RavensGryf]

I can view Trish's facebook page (which sidetracked me for a while :54, but I can't find the kangaroos! :52: I want to see!

 

[JerseyWendy]

LOVED the video!!!

Trish, can you get the direct YouTube link from Tom so everyone can see the video?

I was able to access it in your and in Tom's page (even though I have NO clue who Tom is, HAHAHHA), but folks who don't have FB won't be able to see it, which I believe you'd say 'buggerit'. :54:

 

[Betrisher]

Oh buggerit! I tried to get the YouTube URL, but the vid was posted to facebook and so doesn't exist on YouTube. I'm SO sorry everyone - it was such a good bit of film I wanted to share it. The embarrassment!!!!

Thank you for the nice comments about my leather work. That's what I've been doing these past few days: turning some of my drawings into vectors and then printing them out as carving patterns. I cut up some 'roo hide today for wallets. It's amazing how supple and thin, yet strong and durable 'roo hide is! It even takes tooling pretty well, so long as you don't dong it too hard with your mallet.

Allee, we get feral pigs too. They're really, really horrible and absolutely devastate the places where they hang out. Also, they tend to want to hurt you when you shoot at them, so I no longer do. You can't eat the pork because it's a reservoir for just about every horrendous parasitic worm known to man and only the skin and the carnassial teeth have any real value. We also get feral cats, dogs, rabbits, camels, water buffalo and carp in huge, enormous, hordelike numbers. I've seen places so riddled with rabbit warrens, they were dangerous to traverse on foot. In my younger days as a field zoologist, I used to help catch and humanely euthanise feral cats that were decimating our shore bird populations. Most people have no idea how very very large a feral cat will grow and how even larger its kittens become. It's almost as if they're returning to their inner lion once they get away from domestication! Cats have been singularly responsible for the extinction of quite a few of our songbird species and at least a few of our hole-nesting parrots.

Camels were brought here from Afghanistan in the nineteenth century. They were extremely useful in traversing our 'red centre' in the charge of their indefatigable Afghan drivers, but when they either escaped or were released into the wild, they went viral and really exploited the Australian environment to its fullest. The only predator that could possibly harm a camel would be a crocodile and since those don't occur where the camels roam - well, the camels do pretty well - AND eat up all the grass! Water buffalo are a dreadful pest in some of our most precious habitats, like Kakadu National Park. The buffalo came with rice farming and escapees, like the camels, did exceptionally well in our predator-free country. Now, the beasts trample the precious wetlands and make it impossible for many of the native plants (and, therefore, fish and bird species) to thrive. Also, they carry seed of noxious species, like pampas grass, in their manure and spread things that really don't need spreading. Yet, we still shoot our national animal.

If anyone can gimme a hint on how to share this bit of 'roo video, please do. It's public, so anyone should be able to see it. I don't know why it's not showing.

PS. Non facebook people could try clicking on 'Timeline' near the top of my page. The vid should be the topmost post there?

 

[ToMang07]

When I click on the link I can't even see the page, I just get" Sorry, this content isn't available right now" message.

 

[Doublete]

It's so weird I have fb. But the most recent post I see on your page is nov 16.

 

[Terry57]

Holy kangaroos! That is truly one of the coolest things I have ever seen! You should talk your friend into putting it onto Youtube, I bet he would be able to make some money from adding ads to it on there.

 

[Doublete]

Awwww mannnn I wanna see!!!!

 

[Doublete]

I think Australia is so cool. My aunt married an Australian and my cousins got dual citizenship recently but I've never been.
Just pictures and stories.

 

[Betrisher]

Hokay. I'm SO sorry I couldn't get the original video to work. Instead, I found a couple on YouTube and they're almost as good. Check these out:

This is a sizeable mob to be seen so close to human habitation. Note the sound of magpies in the background. These are Eastern Grey Kangaroos (Macropus giganteus).

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM51GkuM_SU"]A Mob of Kangaroos, New South Wales, Australia - YouTube[/ame]

This is a rather larger mob in Busselton (extreme south west of Western Australia). These are Red Kangaroos (Macropus rufus), which are bigger and 'meatier' and faster.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xviwrO6UZbo"]Big Mob of Kangaroos in Busselton Western Australia - YouTube[/ame]

 

[RavensGryf]

Trish, thank you for posting the next best thing to that one video . I loved it! I assume they use their tail for balance and steering, but it's interesting how they use the tail as sort of a kickstand when standing.

My budgie Twigs must have loved the music in the second one. It really got him screaming and singing.

 

[Doublete]

Thank you! I was dying to see so cool