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Kangaroos lure dogs into water and drown them

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Published on 06 Feb 2025 / In Film & Animation

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

I am not there, and have no idea how the dog got out into the grip of the kangaroo in the water.

I will ASSUME that the dogs are not trained enough to not chase or to break off a chase when called.

And one went off in hot pursuit of a kangaroo, and the kangaroo headed for the water, and the dog followed, and the kangaroo worked out the depth, where he could stand out of the water and the dog was well off the bottom, and when the dog got close, the kangaroo grabbed it and started to push it under.

Yes the roos know how to drown dogs.

But although this event is semi-random and sort of rare-ish - this is part and parcel of the dogs roaming and chance encounters with roos near water......

I think the minimum level of training for dogs is that they come when called...

This is a good way to avoid most disasters.

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Leader_Desslok
Leader_Desslok 1 month ago

i thihk that we now know why the anti kangaroo boomerang nautical system design was invented long ago by the aboriginals. if you are a pet owner you need to keep one handy in the outdoors at all times . i think that the kangaroos adapted to an environment where the Dingos usually had the advantage.

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

@Leader_Desslok: The Kangaroo is a native to Australia marsupial - and has been here for ever...... the dingos - came with the abbos XX thousands of years ago..... the standard pacific dogs that are all through Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, etc.

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Leader_Desslok
Leader_Desslok 1 month ago

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: i understand this . however the deeper roots of this survival instinct is probably from dealing with the thylacine . when the dingos came along this worked every bit as well . there was no kangaroo that wanted to have to stand up in court and say " a dingo ate my baby ". ;)

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

@Leader_Desslok: Jesus the cats are fucking JUMPY - must be LOTS of snakes around..... "A rustle in the grass" so to speak, and they are jumping into the air.....

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

@Leader_Desslok: In terms of survival traits, being able to run to water and then stand up in water that is deep enough, so the do is swimming and they can push it under and drown it - not sure of all the survival strategies of all animals - but within my limited and largely ignorant knowledge, it seems to rate as rather unique. If these don't have how the skill came about, one of their many links might. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo ----------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine

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Leader_Desslok
Leader_Desslok 1 month ago

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: thylacine = marsupial wolf . now thought to be extinct . i am not so sure about that .

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Leader_Desslok
Leader_Desslok 1 month ago

@Leader_Desslok: i am currently watching this series made in Tasmania . i can not believe how verdent and forested that island is . i believe that if there are any thylacine left , they are in Tasmania . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....The_Kettering_Incide https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4228802/

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

@Leader_Desslok: There MIGHT very well be living thylacine in the woody areas. Apparently there have been many sightings..... (I don't know any more - have not looked them up in a long time) And without being too specific and somewhat generalised, I also note that in the last 100 years since they became extinct, their numbers have not rebounded to make them more conspicious and to be regularly observed / sighted... trails, feeding at tips / off carcass's / raiding chicken pens - fresh lambs etc... , etc......

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

It's like this - say there was some 100,000 rabbits in a BIG area, and 99,000 of them got shot, and 5 years later, there was 100,000 of them - again.... The thigh-low-scenes - to the best of my knowledge have not bounced back to any kind of real and observable numbers, like the rabbits have, and they have had like ~100 years to do it. They are not smothing the rubbish tips and roaming the suburbs killing rabbits and cats and being observed, photographed and filmed by people, "Oh here is the video - there was 5 of them in the back yard last night - killing all the chickens!" - there are however these reports: https://library.dbca.wa.gov.au..../static/Journals/080 ------------- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ebtFRXMDu0 -------------- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht_3BcefXNQ

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