General News
25 October, 2024
Barry's Corner
Our roads and highways are decorated with the carnage of dead kangaroos as mangled bodies litter the roadsides.
It does not matter which road you take across the country the numbers are similar. It shows there has been a recent tragedy and the evidence will remain for some time until the
carcass is eaten down by the ravens and insects.
Justifications have been made to say why the animals should be left alone and allowed to breed and lay around in the sun to grow old in the bush.
But there is a need to manage of the marsupial population to a responsible number.
Some areas have too many animals roaming wild across freehold and crown land and some districts are almost devoid.
This is not a case to spread them around, so much as a discussion to take a more pragmatic view for the sake of the animals' survival.
These are the animals that have a foetus waiting in the birth canal, one on the teat and one in the pouch.
As the pouch young grows larger they get tossed out by the female when it is too big to carry about.
Then the one on the teat grows until it is ready to go out of the pouch and the foetus is assisted onto the pouch teat to take over from its sibling.
The process is cyclical. That explains why the growth rates appear to be coming thick and fast. The natural way to provide birth control is to harass the animals and recreate the conditions the roos have faced for thousands of years when dingoes and humans actively hunted the animals.
The roo has good eyesight and a good sense of smell and its hearing is helped by having one ear to focus on a sound in one direction while the other ear rotates to pick up any new sounds.
If in danger a simple spring with those big muscly legs gets them to top speed in seconds.