If the Shark doesn't get you, the 'Roo will

[billie_morini]

Think I heard it first in a surfing movie that Oz is filled with things that can kill you: animals, insects, plants, and weather. We see a lot of stories about surfers getting bitten by one shark or another. The little video clip that just made the 'net showing a bloke saving his big dog from an even bigger 'Roo, got me curious about how and what they attack. Found this summary, which involves accounts of attacks on humans and dogs.

http://www.amazingaustralia.com.au/animals/kangaroo_attacks.htm

[jaffa1949]

We have jelly fish that can kill you ! Several types!
Snakes most of the top ten deadliest , we have spiders that eat the snakes.
We have wombats that can roll your car, platypus that have venomous spurs.
Super deadly spiders that don't eat snakes but like to hide in your shoes or wait for you at the bottom of your swimming pool.
Drop bears and disembowelling by emus, kangaroos or wallabies.
Dingos that take babies
Stone fish, venomous seashell then sharks crocodiles and sea snakes.
But most aussies are friendly
Selfie sticks have increased the toll of injury and fatalities markedly but they make glorious memorial pics

[billie_morini]

Crazy isn't it, Jaffa?!

[jaffa1949]

Just an everyday happening, very little gun crime, no pumas nor grizzly bears kodiaks or other mammals that eat you! If things here eat you they have probably poisoned you first! Aussie kindness!

[Big H]

Here's one for ya....
https://www.facebook.com/Latruth/videos ... 896627881/

[billie_morini]

Here's one for ya....
https://www.facebook.com/Latruth/videos ... 896627881/

Big H, that video is actually what piqued my curiosity about big kangaroos. The 'Roo in that video is as tall as the man. I've lived in some US states chock full of venomous snakes of all kinds. I've lived with cougars and bear close by. Even when in massive swamps thick with alligators, all is docile compared to mean spirited salt water crocodiles (found in Oz and other places).

The dog in the video looks like it is even larger than my Roxy Ridgeback. That makes him a mighty big dog. If a big 'Roo held my Roxy Ridgeback by the throat like that, it would have been settled with something more deadly than a bare fisted punch.

[jaffa1949]

Let me inform you about the kangaroo martial arts technique.
Firstly the disemboweling kick ; roo grabs with fore paws and stands on fully muscular tail raising hind legs up and then downwards into the opponents gut, the muscles that power those mighty jumps rip you open.

The kangaroo water torture technique, designed to drown dingos.
Not effective in drought conditions!
Roo jumps into deep water and aggravates dog to swim out to attack, 6ft roo, stands on bottom dog swims out is held at bay and underwater by forepaws until it drown.

They can bite, forepaw scratch. A nasty roo is dangerous and will chase to wound.

Oh one more thing our camels are deadly too, Australia exports camels to rich sheikhs.