Menacing Kangaroos

Yes, but so, Kangaroos must be killed. The Breeding succes with Wombats outside of OZ is very low until now, that is true. But in my case, their chance to survive (in European or US Zoos) is much higher as if they live along Australian (main)roads. If you want to settle them into a safer place within Australia, that would be fine to on my opinion.

Animal Liberation groups exist all over the world and might be a problem for zoos. But when you can reach the majority of the public by explaining them, how the facts are, most of them will not listen to the animal rights peoble and would chose the safe captivity for the animals.
 
I hit an emu a couple of years ago. Ran onto the road in front of me, changed it's mind and stopped so suddenly that it's kegs slipped out from under it and fell over. Was still trying to get up when I hit it. Smashed up the front bumper, badly damaged the radiator, completely killed the air-conditioning, and put a ^ in the bashplate. Cost $3,000 to repair.

:(

Hix
 
Edit to my last message: "...that would be fine TOO...". Sorry about that.

@Hix
Well, in your position, I would have been happy neither.... And maybe even myself would have thought about an Emu-Steak in that moment....:)
 
Actually, once I confirmed the bird was dead, I was more concerned that I was 120kms from Broken Hill (the nearest town) with a damaged radiator, no airconditioning, and the temperature was around 40º Celcius.

And, 20 months later, the mechanics are still finding feathers when they service my car!

:p

Hix
 
zoomaniac said:
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...
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Actually I dont really agree with that ...

As far I've read Kangurus are quite easy to transport and adapt quite well to captivity - both adult and young wild caught.
Of course that there is always a big stress for the animals, but comparing Kangurus with other Spp, there do quite well.

One big issue is the imunitary system of marsupials that does not deal very well with stress or with enviroment changes. Plus, when going down is quite hard to get it up.

But I believe that the biggest issue here would be money needed to export from Australia to Europe/USA - not only the travell itself, as well all the planning and paperwork.

But, as some of you know, I all in favour of getting new blood, new species and new animals from Wild Caught sources!!
 
Groups such as WIRES raise probably thousands of orphaned Kangaroos and hundreds of Wombats as well. These are usually released where they were found which is usually an area of high population in which the threat which killed their mothers, like traffic, are still there and it is likely the hand raised young will suffer the same fate. These would be good animals to send to overseas zoos as they are quite and easily transported with wild genetics.
 
We've imported Eastern greys from Australia 3 or 4 times in the past. We are now trying to import some new animals and have had no luck for the past 2 years. If the animals are shipped in the correct type of crate there is little problem with their health. We often got young animals that were from rehabilitators. Most of these animals lived to ripe old ages--I have numerous animals at or near 20+ years old. Our oldest animal died last winter at just over 21.5 years old. She had 6 joeys, all but one are still alive.
 
@CindelP:

If I am right, then you are not agree with ZYBen, because it was his quote..:)

@Monty:
Where I can sign this?:)
 
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