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.

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


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.

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



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...

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


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


neither of those comments are incorrect so whats your point?

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 8:10am:

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

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One or three kangaroos?

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

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


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.

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.

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.

Re: what kangaroos?

The one's loose in your top paddock?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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


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

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


Are you deliberately being an idiot?

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


Definitely used against dingoes before domestic dogs were here.

Here's a good example

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

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?

Just another ruse.

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

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


Yep you're an eyjit

listening to the ABC? 

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


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.

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



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.

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


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?

The best Roo is a clubbed and cooked Roo.

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

You get things right, sometimes.

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


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

Gnads score 3 /3.

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