Menacing Kangaroos

those figures are very low, it just just be the reported ones. i think in reality alot more roo's are hit.
When i hit one it only got the bull bar and smashed a spotlight, so i didnt even worry about insurance.
There are a hell of a lot of Kangaroos around, numbers are beleieved to be increasing, which is why i am a big fan of Kangaroo Meats for both Human and Animal Consumption.
 
These numbers are way too low, On one 50 km stretch of road between my place and town there is on average one accident a month related to roos. In the last two years 7 people have been killed.

The other problem is if there is a death it is not always known that a roo was involved. The roo could survive and not be on the road or, for example, when I had an accident I was going 95kmp/h. which is below the speed limit, however my car ended up nearly 80 metres aways after flipping 5 times.
 
@ZYBen: If it's any help, those of us in the falconry world are big fans of kangaroo leather for jesses and hoods. Stuff's darn near indestructable, beats calf leather hands-down.

I didn't realize the population was that much of a problem, though.

Keep the peace(es).
 
I wonder how much of the Meat and leather is exported? theres alot of people who are grated too, as per govt website.
 
There are a lot of deadly car accidents (for humans and animals) with wild boar, roe deer and red deer all across Europe, in the northern parts (Skandinavia) also with mooses.

That happens - as worry as it is - all around the world where nature meets civilisation.

Anyway: I hope the reaction of most Australians is not: There are so many kangaroos, let's kill them just for fun by hit those animals with the bull bar.

Isn't it a little confusing when a country don't allow (or only with huge administration) to export the same animals they kill in huge numbers (intentionally or not) every year?
 
I doubt anyone hits a kangaroo deliberatley, even with a bull or roo bar they can still do a hell of a lot of damage.

Adult Kangaroos do not cope well with the stress of moving, so live export is not an opition.
 
ZYBen said:
I doubt anyone hits a kangaroo deliberatley, even with a bull or roo bar they can still do a hell of a lot of damage.

Adult Kangaroos do not cope well with the stress of moving, so live export is not an opition.
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Ben is right, you'd have to have serious issues to hit a kangaroo on purpose.

It might surprise some, but then again maybe not, that the aussie native that causes the mosts damage to cars is the wombat.

And running over an echidna will almost always guarantee a flat.
 
I think a lot of single veichle accidents where the driver is killed are probobly caused by swerving for Kangaroos. If nobody survives and the Kangaroo is not hit there is no way of finding the cause. I have hit a couple of roos, but was never going very fast, and the bullbar has always prevented damage, except to the roo. I have seen veichles with bullbars still severely damaged if the hit a large roo at 100km/h.
I have herd of wombats removing stearing, suspention or engine sumps when hit as they always go under cars and do a lot of damage.
 
Jarkari said:
Ben is right, you'd have to have serious issues to hit a kangaroo on purpose.

It might surprise some, but then again maybe not, that the aussie native that causes the mosts damage to cars is the wombat.

And running over an echidna will almost always guarantee a flat.
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Having said that, if you hve a roo on the road in front of you it is better to hit it then to swerve, I was unlucky in my case as the roo went under the tyre and ripped the whole thing off.
 
@ZYBen and Jarkari: I'm glad to hear that. What I have heard during my visit in Oz, many Australians don't think that Kangaroos (and Wallabys) have a great value. And shooting them from a pick-up is - as Australians told me - not only a Crocodile-Dundee-Cliché.

To the Quote: "Adult Kangaroos do not cope well with the stress of moving, so live export is not an opition." - Really? Zoos accross Europe have and do transport(ed) Kangaroos (young and adults) from one country to another. With no or just a little loss. And the group of yellow-footed rockwallabys in Besançon (France) was brought in by plane from Los Angeles, USA (3 specimen, age 1 to 2 years on time of arrival).
But anyway: Nobody said that kangaroos for export out of Australia should be adults...
 
Animals raised in captivity cope fairly well with being moved, wild ones continually jump when i boxes and when in bags for a prolonged period often break out.

Petrogale wallabies tend to cope okay.
 
@ZYBen:

Okay, good point. But what about capturing wild ones and export their offspring? (By the way: The zoo that has exhibited Kangaroos for the fist time must have caught them before....)
 
Of course there has been some suces in moving adult Kangaroos, I have always avoided it, but when needed i have (Western Greys, Reds and Euros)
I think for farming to work there would have to be a large overseas demand, and we already have too many roo's!
 
I guess their is (or would be) a demand in overseas zoos, but not for the price of huge "paper war" because of export/import regulations mostly thru the Australian (but also some European or US-) gouverment.
For example Cologne has phased out their Kangaroos (Euros or one of the Greys, I don't remember exactly) because they were not able to get fresh blood (from OZ).
 
Oh, I think it won't be that bad. Australia has still other animal attractions and a also a beautiful gorgon-gazfield that is interesting for chinese and indian tourists...:)

To be honest: I think, it is better to reduce the stock of wild kangaroos and wombats from time to time by sending them in foreign zoos and reduce the risk of an animal/car accident in this way then to kill them in advance to reduce that risk. Or you think, the numbers of accidents are acceptable and you leave it like it is.
 
A fair number of Kangaroos are slaughtered for both the pet food and human consumption, so that would keep numbers down. I dot believe Wombats are at the level where they could be exported wild caught. And if some of Animal Liberation groups and media found out they would jump on it, it would be like what happened with TWPZ selling Blackbuck to a private game ranch.
 
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