People like to claim roos for a national identity. But is there much understanding of them? ABC Breakfast showed a pic of 3 roos standing up to face a camera and the comment was that the person carefully backed away.  The ABC comments agreed about the heavily muscled roos being a threat.

Unless a roo is cornered it's not aggro and a male attacks a rival against its dominance. Three roos aren't a pair of rivals.  Yes it's good to keep distance from bush animals but wrong info is not helping them.

** Sits back and waits for Marla to comment **  ;D

chimera wrote on Jan 8^th, 2025 at 8:10am:

People like to claim roos for a national identity. But is there much understanding of them? ABC Breakfast showed a pic of 3 roos standing up to face a camera and the comment was that the person carefully backed away.  The ABC comments agreed about the heavily muscled roos being a threat. Unless a roo is cornered it's not aggro and a male attacks a rival against its dominance. Three roos aren't a pair of rivals.  Yes it's good to keep distance from bush animals but wrong info is not helping them.

That's bs there have been quite a few instances around here of buck roos attacking people out on their morning walks.

A friend of mine who lives in a little fishing village called Maaroom not far from me installed a 6 foot steel fence around his property to keep a local mob of roos off his lawn. Prior to installation his wife had to rescue an elderly couple from a buck roo that came from across the road to have a go at them ... she ended up having to usher them under her house because he kept coming. 2 other people in the same community were attacked by probably the same buck with one woman being hospitalised.

Some of the attacks are even made by female/doe roos. Not all with joeys at foot either.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=448626856952921

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8d47os

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=513351906593033

There are dozens of incidents of roo attacks on people all over the country.

There are a lot of roos in my neighborhood - fortunately so far no one has been attacked as there are some very big buck roos in the mobs around here.

There are attacks when a roo is cornered or feels threatened. A male could see a person as a rival, to be attacked. Are there any records of a gang of 3 attacking as a group?

chimera wrote on Jan 8^th, 2025 at 10:28am:

There are attacks when a roo is cornered or feels threatened. A male could see a person as a rival, to be attacked. Are there any records of a gang of 3 attacking as a group?

Jesus - Drop Bears AND Drop Roos this summer!  Cannibalism on the rise .... during bad seasons kangaroos and koalas eat people .... easy to catch one since the people imagine they are the ace predator.... but what lurks beneath that cuddly furry exterior... no wonder all those Outback Abos disappear every year...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw9viDCGPyY

Roos don't attack, they defend their space, mob and self. Retreating from a roo is always the best option, even just laying on the ground will satisfy the roo you are not a threat. Trying to fight the roo will only make the roo think you are a threat and it will defend.

chimera wrote on Jan 8^th, 2025 at 8:10am:

the comment was that the person carefully backed away

chimera wrote on Jan 8^th, 2025 at 8:10am:

The ABC comments agreed about the heavily muscled roos being a threat

neither of those comments are incorrect so whats your point?

A group of three staring at a person is not automatically a threat. Where have three roos joined in a combined attack?

I suspect an attack is more likely where roos are 'tame' and used to being in close proximity to people. Out where they are hunted you are lucky to even see one. I thought a male roo was threatening me once on a golf course in Perth when I got too close to the mob, but it is hard to image more than one male roo attacking. It's a bit like sharks. Where people regularly catch and kill sharks they are very polite and keep their distance. But otherwise they can be very aggressive. There are few, if any, truly wild places left. The behaviour you see in wild animals is largely a response to the behaviour they see in people.

chimera wrote on Jan 8^th, 2025 at 11:24am:

A group of three staring at a person is not automatically a threat. Where have three roos joined in a combined attack?

where did anyone say the three would attack as a group?

chimera wrote on Jan 8^th, 2025 at 8:10am:

ABC Breakfast showed a pic of 3 roos standing up to face a camera and the comment was that the person carefully backed away.  The ABC comments agreed about the heavily muscled roos being a threat.

If you're driving and cattle are on the road, staring at you, do you get out the pepper spray and dial 000?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fMQoz6xcUM

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they will certainly drown your dog if they get a chance

One or three kangaroos?

chimera wrote on Jan 8^th, 2025 at 12:58pm:

One or three kangaroos?

one

will try to lure the dog into the water, pronanly learnt the trick against dingoes

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So 3 roos aren't automatically a threat.
( 2 grab your arms and the other takes wallet, bag of Bitcoins, phone and powder substances. Kicks your bum and tells you clear off)..

aquascoot wrote on Jan 8^th, 2025 at 1:07pm:

will try to lure the dog into the water, pronanly learnt the trick against dingoes

They don't try to lure them in, the roo would prefer the dog to piss off. By defending itself in the water stops the dog from being able to circle round the roo and attack from behind. Its a lot harder for the dog to maneuver in the water.

No, the (1) roo grabs the dog's head and holds it under water. Roo waits for best offer for kidnap ransom.  Sends the pack of roos round to collect from the owner.

And I thought bush Possums throwing bark peices at me from branches above (accurate throws at angles of a few metres away) were a threat to my life. Now it's three Grey Roos staring me down with hypnotism, being more dangerous.
Let's not forget Koalas at Zoos attacking Nihonese and Chinese tourists during the Cuddle a Koala photo experience, because yellow people smell like sour territorial markings and sound like breaking branches when they talk. Out comes the Koala claws and grunts.
As for Dingoes. When they approach, all you gotta do is pull out the pizza and they'll be your best friend and leave the kids alone.
Cassowaries? Must be very wary of these aggressive attackers, but just like the Great White Sharks of the Neptune Islands love the sound of AC/DC on hydrophone. Cassowaries become docile when they hear high quality harp music.

Chooks and cows are into Mozart. Cassowaries are so wary and go for heavy metal, rabbits for clockwork Beethoven.

No. Proven fact, Cassowaries like quality harp music. They even sit on the ground to listen non aggressively. You still don't approach them though.
As for those pesky bush Possums throwing bark peices at me when camping. Well, I think only a paint ball gun works as I've seen a few colourful possums in the trees who seem a lot better behaved.

We had a stupid dog that howled to low-quality guitar playing. I kept telling it the timing was 2/4 not 3/4 but would she learn?

Re: what kangaroos?

The one's loose in your top paddock?

Yes the local mob. They're involved in frequent hit and run.

Dogs are stupid in Jervis Bay suburbs, where the kangaroos are very road wise. Some idiot will let his/her dog out and it chases roos like tunnel vision. Everyone misses the roo with a swerve but hit the dogs right after it. Cunning Kangas.

Jasin wrote on Jan 8^th, 2025 at 6:21pm:

where the kangaroos are very road wise. .

They don't stay in the roo lane, then?

I used to live in JB. The roos don't hop across a road until there are no cars or before there is one. They've learnt that unleashed dogs don't look either way when chasing them. More dog hits, than roos in JB.

So the road is clear. I think the roo hit the dog and blamed a car.

Could be Chims. The roos wear Covid masks, so it's hard to tell if it's actually them who do it

And they all look the same to me. You get a pack of them raiding a hay shed and how do you tell who's their boss?

Good question. I guess the one that comes forward when you call Skippy?

You may get better results if you specify the alpha male organiser with staff accountability.

It's that or ask Marla which kangaroo has the biggest balls?

Check this - remember my idea to market Cane Toad fillets as North Queensland Whiting or something?

https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/appeal-a-licence-or-registration-decision-online

The "monster" specimen is six times bigger than the average toad, weighs 2.7kg, and could break a world record. They are forming into toad packs, feed on sugar cane and have regional master-toads who plan tactics. This adds to roo clout with more muscle being observed in militant roos.

Don't forget in America, they have cows with gun and chickens in choppers.

chimera wrote on Jan 8^th, 2025 at 10:28am:

There are attacks when a roo is cornered or feels threatened. A male could see a person as a rival, to be attacked. Are there any records of a gang of 3 attacking as a group?

Relevance? What point are you trying to make or suggest? ...other than more BS?

chimera wrote on Jan 8^th, 2025 at 11:24am:

A group of three staring at a person is not automatically a threat. Where have three roos joined in a combined attack?

Who said they ever did?

chimera wrote on Jan 8^th, 2025 at 11:50am:

chimera wrote on Jan 8th, 2025 at 8:10am: ABC Breakfast showed a pic of 3 roos standing up to face a camera and the comment was that the person carefully backed away.  The ABC comments agreed about the heavily muscled roos being a threat. If you're driving and cattle are on the road, staring at you, do you get out the pepper spray and dial 000?

Are you deliberately being an idiot?

chimera wrote on Jan 8^th, 2025 at 2:14pm:

So 3 roos aren't automatically a threat. ( 2 grab your arms and the other takes wallet, bag of Bitcoins, phone and powder substances. Kicks your bum and tells you clear off)..

Phuk off with your 3 roos attacking BS.

aquascoot wrote on Jan 8^th, 2025 at 1:07pm:

will try to lure the dog into the water, probably learnt the trick against dingoes

Definitely used against dingoes before domestic dogs were here.

Here's a good example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC6UjLrteZo&ab_channel=DogsByDave

chimera wrote on Jan 8^th, 2025 at 2:35pm:

No, the (1) roo grabs the dog's head and holds it under water. Roo waits for best offer for kidnap ransom.  Sends the pack of roos round to collect from the owner.

So all you've got is one BS post after another?

You're not really interested in being factual.

Gnads wrote on Jan 9^th, 2025 at 8:38am:

chimera wrote on Jan 8th, 2025 at 11:50am: chimera wrote on Jan 8th, 2025 at 8:10am: ABC Breakfast showed a pic of 3 roos standing up to face a camera and the comment was that the person carefully backed away.  The ABC comments agreed about the heavily muscled roos being a threat. If you're driving and cattle are on the road, staring at you, do you get out the pepper spray and dial 000? Are you deliberately being an idiot?

Yes it helps when talking to you. ABC says that 3 roos together are a threat.  That is a false idea. Do you understand the words :
1) kangaroo
2) three
3) idea?

20 kangaroos all staring at you. The ABC calls this a Mob Riot.

Just another ruse.

I warned you all.

So instead of rooting them why try hunting them with boomerangs?

Something to pass the time until Trump installs a one world government

I'll be your Kangaroo, Marla.
If you will be my Starfish.

I actually had a male getting hormonal and ripping up small shrubs. So I threw my boomerang which bounced off and he looked bewildered at the changed attitude. (I don't have a spear which was probably his real problem)

chimera wrote on Jan 9^th, 2025 at 11:48am:

Gnads wrote on Jan 9th, 2025 at 8:38am: chimera wrote on Jan 8th, 2025 at 11:50am: chimera wrote on Jan 8th, 2025 at 8:10am: ABC Breakfast showed a pic of 3 roos standing up to face a camera and the comment was that the person carefully backed away.  The ABC comments agreed about the heavily muscled roos being a threat. If you're driving and cattle are on the road, staring at you, do you get out the pepper spray and dial 000? Are you deliberately being an idiot? Yes it helps when talking to you. ABC says that 3 roos together are a threat.  That is a false idea. Do you understand the words : 1) kangaroo 2) three 3) idea?

Yep you're an eyjit

listening to the ABC?  ;D

There's two other people at least who listen to ABC. And posters here seem to be OK with thinking roos in a group are a threat.

chimera wrote on Jan 11^th, 2025 at 7:47am:

There's two other people at least who listen to ABC. And posters here seem to be OK with thinking roos in a group are a threat.

Never been an attack by a group of roos - always 1 roo

whether it be a buck being territorial & protecting his doe/s

or a doe protecting a joey.

Stop pretending like you're even slightly serious about roo attacks or even knowing a thing about them.

Just keep trying to make your attempts at being humorous. Or delirious - whatever. ;D

Gnads wrote on Jan 11^th, 2025 at 9:09am:

Stop pretending like you're even slightly serious about roo attacks or even knowing a thing about them.

So I write the same comment as you and you disagree...
right.....
?

chimera wrote on Jan 11^th, 2025 at 10:14am:

Gnads wrote on Jan 11th, 2025 at 9:09am: Stop pretending like you're even slightly serious about roo attacks or even knowing a thing about them. So I write the same comment as you and you disagree... right..... ?

No - you're wrong - 100%. 

Roos don't attack in groups. Threats are from individual roos - which can be sometimes in a larger group -

usually in urban neighborhoods/settings.

So far in my suburb which has up 60 or 70 roos frequenting different parks & sports fields in differing size mobs.....

no one has been attacked by either a buck or a doe.

My street is a corridor they use to go from the local AFL grounds to cane fields & a park beyond & vice versa.

The photo is of a roo drinking from the fishpond in my front yard.... I don't have any fencing.

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Gnads wrote on Jan 11^th, 2025 at 11:49am:

No - you're wrong - 100%.  .

As you can't read English, there's no point trying to get through.
(Do you drive a car? just asking.)

chimera wrote on Jan 11^th, 2025 at 1:55pm:

Gnads wrote on Jan 11th, 2025 at 11:49am: No - you're wrong - 100%.  . As you can't read English, there's no point trying to get through. (Do you drive a car? just asking.)

I don't know if you're left handed or right handed but I'm sure one of them is overused in your self pleasuring activities.

As for reading & driving - you're drivel is hard to discern -

driving? yes - relevance?

chimera wrote on Jan 8^th, 2025 at 2:14pm:

So 3 roos aren't automatically a threat. .

So means 'Then, logically'
3 means a roo and another and another.
aren't is the opposite of 'are'.
automatically is a very large word and I'll leave this discussion with Gnads.

The best Roo is a clubbed and cooked Roo.

chimera wrote on Jan 12^th, 2025 at 11:14am:

chimera wrote on Jan 8th, 2025 at 2:14pm: So 3 roos aren't automatically a threat. . So means 'Then, logically' 3 means a roo and another and another. aren't is the opposite of 'are'. automatically is a very large word and I'll leave this discussion with Gnads.

Yeah you should leave ... you're talking through your arse.

Gnads wrote on Jan 11^th, 2025 at 11:49am:

Roos don't attack in groups. Threats are from individual roos - which can be sometimes in a larger group -

You get things right, sometimes.

chimera wrote on Jan 13^th, 2025 at 1:43pm:

Gnads wrote on Jan 11th, 2025 at 11:49am: Roos don't attack in groups. Threats are from individual roos - which can be sometimes in a larger group - You get things right, sometimes.

No I got that right & I got it right you were speaking through your arse.

I thought you were leaving this discussion?

3 big buck roos over the road from my house. Took photo from directly opposite footpath.

They didn't give a stuff just continued eating the nice grass. Only hopped off when a vehicle came out of the dirt laneway.

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Gnads wrote on Jan 13^th, 2025 at 11:50am:

So 3 roos aren't automatically a threat. .and I'll leave this discussion with Gnads.

I left the discussion of that sentence's definitions. So you agree with Gnads do you, Gnads?

chimera wrote on Jan 14^th, 2025 at 12:47pm:

Gnads wrote on Jan 13th, 2025 at 11:50am: So 3 roos aren't automatically a threat. .and I'll leave this discussion with Gnads. I left the discussion of that sentence's definitions. So you agree with Gnads do you, Gnads?

W⚓ X 3

Gnads score 3 /3.

chimera wrote on Jan 14^th, 2025 at 2:21pm:

Gnads score 3 /3.

Don't tell lies

that's your score.

There we have it. Gnads is now arguing with Gnads.