Australia is a magical country where rabbits, camels, crocodiles, seals, wild goats, wild dogs, foxes and so on are flooded, and even kangaroos, which are "national treasures", have become the target of hunting. But surprisingly, things seem to have reversed. According to the Associated Press, a man in southern Australia died of serious injuries after being attacked by a kangaroo.
It is worth noting that this is the first time in 86 years. In 1936, an Australian man was attacked by a kangaroo to rescue his dog from a kangaroo and died of serious injuries. So why is this accident? How powerful is the kangaroo's attack force beyond imagination, why is it said that humans may be the "culprit"?
A single kick to break the windshield and a sweep of the tail can kill you! How powerful are kangaroos?
Kangaroos, the world's tallest and farthest-jumping mammals. Kangaroos are actually a large class, in which different species of kangaroos can live in different natural environments, some of them will nest and live in trees, some will live in burrows, and some will live in desert plains. In terms of habits, the kangaroo's diet covers grasses, a variety of plants, and fungi. They are usually predominantly gregarious, and it is not excluded that individual smaller species choose to live alone.
It is worth noting that kangaroos are actually considered by scientists to be underdeveloped animals, so there are bags that need to feed premature fetuses. The female kangaroo will have two uteruses, some of which are newborn pups and the left uterus is pregnant with baby embryos. If the climate is suitable, the kangaroo mother will take turns to conceive and reproduce in the left and right uterus.
In general, adult kangaroos are about 1.5 meters tall and weigh about 100 pounds, while some larger kangaroos can reach 2 meters tall and weigh up to 180 pounds. Kangaroos mainly use lower limbs to beat, so the lower limbs are very developed. In the case of running, kangaroos can exceed 50 km / h at the balance of the tail. It is worth mentioning that in fact, the hind limbs and tail of kangaroos are "multi-functional". The hind limbs are the main source of power for their flying kicks when defending against enemies, and the tail can also be used as a weapon for both attack and defense.
I believe that the plot in the movie "Lone Moon" has impressed many people, the Wolverine "Gangzi" is greedy, grumpy, and has a strong fighting power, kicking the protagonist away with one kick, and the prototype in reality is actually a kangaroo. It is reported that the tail of the kangaroo can kill people with a sweep. And the overall attack power is not beyond doubt, once the boxing king Tyson in a talk show in response to the host's question said: if you have a boxing match with the kangaroo, you are expected to lose very badly, if it attacks with its legs, when provoked, you may soon go to see God.
This is not modesty! In 2018, Hayden, a 19-year-old man, went hunting with his brother and accidentally found three kangaroos. Unexpectedly, despite the shotgun, in the end, not only did not catch the kangaroo, but was hit by the kangaroo and fractured the jaw, and once lost consciousness. It is reported that at that time, the kangaroo took the initiative to jump on the brothers' car, kicked and broke the windshield of the car, and then slammed hayden with his head, and finally fortunately was sent to the hospital in time for treatment.
Once in 86 years! Australia was surprised by the "kangaroo killing" incident, why do you say that the "culprit" is human?
It is reported that this incident occurred a few days ago. The victim, aged 77, lives in a town near Perth, the capital of Western Australia in southern Australia. This "abuser" kangaroo is a wild kangaroo he personally raised, and after attacking the owner, he has been preventing medical staff from approaching the victim, directly endangering the life safety of medical staff, and finally being killed by the police.
Perhaps the first reaction of many people here will feel that this is like a typical "farmer and snake" case. But in fact, it is not, after understanding the "personal experience" of kangaroos, you may pity this most tragic "national treasure" in history.
Like the giant pandas on the mainland, Australia also has an iconic national treasure species, that is, the kangaroo. As a symbol of the country, it will be well protected and carefully taken care of like the mainland giant panda. But on the contrary, in Australia, there are gloved "boxing kangaroos" iconic cultural symbols, but more of a hunting of them, the status of "national treasures" is completely incompatible with the actual situation of being ordered to hunt due to flooding.
According to the relevant statistics of the Spanish newspaper "The Economist", the number of kangaroos in Australia has surged from 27 million to more than 50 million, which is twice the population of Australia. It is reported that the reason for the surge in the number of kangaroos is actually because the continuous rainfall has increased the food production of kangaroos, to some extent, which is also determined by the local natural ecology. However, the temporary increase in local rainfall has caused kangaroos to double in a short period of time.
It is worth mentioning that kangaroos are "national treasures", and there are frequent bad incidents in Australia that compete with livestock, destroy crops, disrupt social order and even openly hurt people. In February 2022, a kangaroo attack occurred in northern Queensland, Australia, where a 4-year-old boy was dying from an attack while playing outdoors. Earlier, an Australian woman was severely injured by an adult kangaroo for persuasion and almost died. In fact, there are many similar incidents in Australia, and I will not list them all here.
From a human point of view, it seems reasonable to control the number of kangaroos, whether for the sake of ecological stability or their own safety. From the perspective of kangaroos, the number of floods wants to survive only to find a way out, disrupting social order and hurting people is also really happening, so these two have become unsolvable. The final "compromise" is that humans have strict protection regulations for certain kangaroo species, but also allow commercial hunting of certain species.
Some of the captured kangaroos are directly hunted and killed for meat, some are made into processed products and exported overseas, and some are even made into dog food. On the contrary, as kangaroos, after all, there is no emotional awareness of the animal, and it is indeed unavoidable to be attacked by domestic wild kangaroos when the number is already controlled. From the perspective of the Rubik's Cube, kangaroos hurt people can not be completely blamed on which side, the war between people and animals is actually a battle of survival territory, if the natural ecological balance naturally will not occur.
But it is undeniable that whether it is due to the fear of humans caused by hunting kangaroos of their kind, or their own uncontrollable attack power, perhaps the behavior of humans out of good intentions or malicious intentions is the "key" button that opens the devil side of kangaroos. What do you think?