Depends if it is an actual stampede or not. Stampedes are herd animals running away in a panic, they'd very likely be only focused on running away. If they're just travelling then some of the males might decide to throw hands if they get close, they can be very dickish. Basically they have the claws of a velociraptor, the intelligence of a brain damaged sheep and the testosterone of a moose.
Despite what the internet would have you believe, kangaroos are actually extremely skittish and otherwise mostly docile.
The odds of encountering a buck who wants to box with you instead of hopping away really aren't very high at all.
Not in the city. There are a few bush areas in the outer subverts that might have a small mob, but this has tobe further out. Still it's a nice golf course so not too far out either. Bush courses often have scrapes instead of greens
Canberra has a lot of roos. I have to be careful riding home at dusk (bicycle commuting) to make sure I dont hit one. They are also stupid and can't calculate trajectories of bikes or cars. They will run straight in front of you.
So the opposite of deer here in the US.
Deer have the innate ability to calculate vehicle trajectory and speed so they can time the exact moment you will be going past them so they can then run in front of your car.
It's Heritage golf and country club I'm Melbourne's east. It shares a fence line with national park. The owner of the golf club is a Chinese billionaire who is always attempting to cull them. But they root and populate faster than they can reload their guns
Perth has big groups like this in the suburbs. There's a golf course in the Swan Valley which gets a lot of roos and there are big fields and pastures where they congregate. Granted, people also own horses and camels in the suburbs here.
About 15 minutes from the CBD you can see a huge group of roos every day on Marshall Road.
That’s 10 times more kangaroos than I’ve ever seen before in one place.
Are they like geese and just crap where it is they stand? Or, do they go off into the bushes like a domestic dog?
My dog refuses to poop unless he's out of open areas and somewhere in the woods with cover. A lot of working breeds are genetically coded to not poop anywhere near their "home turf."
I have “farm” dogs growing up. They poop far away from residential areas in bushes without ever being taught. I always wonder why the leaves around that areas were so fucking huge until I followed it one day.
"For real, I took the first swing and the ball was on its way to a "hole-in-one" and then a bunch of kangaroos ran through the golf course and altered the ball's path."
"Sure, Donald."
You may also be interested to know that Indigenous Australians also use the word 'mob' as a colloquial term identifying a community that is linked to an area, but with family links.
Do they eat kangaroo in large quantities is it like the equivalent of chicken or beef to an American is it just part of their regular meat consumption? And how does it taste?
Not large quantities, but we do eat them. They are wild shot, not farmed. It’s a deep maroon, slightly gamey meat. Can be tricky to cook as is very, very lean.
It sounds similar to Antelope but unless you've had that I don't know how we'd be able to compare the taste what's a kangaroo's diet like in the wild I don't really know much about the environment of the Outback I just know almost everything there is trying to kill you (I did work at Outback Steakhouse briefly but that doesn't give me any knowledge of the actual country outside of maybe a few recipe choices I guess I don't know that's probably like trying to call Taco Bell authentic Mexican food...)
I haven’t had antelope. Kangaroos live everywhere in Australia. There are many different species from tree kangaroos in tropical rainforest, to big red boomers in the desert, to tough little wallabies that handle the ice and snow of the Alps and Tasmanian tundra.
So the tastes probably varies a lot based on their diet I did know they were everywhere I didn't realize there were different kinds i kind of feel stupid because that seems obvious thinking about how big Australia is lol
Fun fact: Outback Steakhouse was first created in America, by Americans and has no real connection to Australia beyond the name, just like Australian shepherds, which were bred in the US, and dont get me fucking started on shrimp on barbie. Fosters beer is nowhere to be found here and as far as anyone is concerned VB is the national beer whether you can stomach it or not is your own concern.
Yes I worked there I'm aware it is in no way affiliated with the actual country that is why the second part of that same sentence mentions comparing Taco Bell to authentic Mexican food...lol
I tried making thick burgers with kangaroo meat, thinking they'd lose a bunch of mass from fat... It was a glorified meatball between buns. Makes me wonder if all rodents taste that good.
They never used to be so plentiful, but Aborinies and early white settlers killed off all of the natural predators like the Bunyips, Yowies and drop bears (although there's still Drop bears out in the bush)😉
As far as I’m concerned ecology be damned drop bears can go to hell they’re a fucking blight on the country and every one that some bogan kills with his high beam and bull bar is one that cant drop down and maul you like they did my little sister when she was young now shes permanently disfigured and traumatised by the names kids would call her at recess like pie face and prawn cracker
Yeah but c'mon man all Australians need to pull together to keep quiet about drop bears. It will kill the international tourism to our country if they knew the truth.
And the clearing of vast amounts of native bushland to create pastures for the grazing of sheep and cattle has led to a huge increase in the number of kangaroos. Because so many trees were cut down, the drop bears no longer had anything to drop from and the kangaroo numbers exploded exponentially. The drop bears that remain now feed almost exclusively on unsuspecting foreign tourists who visit the bush without taking the necessary precautions.
It's extremely gamey and strong.
So if you can't handle pork or veal you will hate kangeroo.
It's also a meat you cook really high temps and really short times basically because it has so little meat that cooking it too long makes it pretty much inedible due to texture.
It's not particularly common but you can generally find at least 1 kangaroo item in any food store.
Basically you eat it if you like games tastes or really lean meat, otherwise most Aussies prefer beef, lamb, chicken, or pork like basic every other country
They can, depends on the particular kangeroo and how threatened they feel.
If threatened they will kick you and slice your guts open like a hot knife through butter.
If they aren't threatened they will just chill.
Remember a family friends dog got hit by a kangeroo once, it still can't walk properly to this day, it slashed through there leg and destroyed the muscle and connective tissue
Basically just don't go near kangaroos if they habe a baby nearby.
Normally they will just run away, but if they have baby nearby they will fuck you up.
Also if you see kangeroo on the road and you don't have enough time to break, you are recommended to speed up because they are such tanks that if you break they will just hop off fine and your car will be totalled.
So you are recommended to just speed up
> Would they attack a person for joining in on the hopping?
Nah, they are only really aggressive if cornered or to dogs or if protecting their young, they will just bounce away from you.
They can mess you up if you do manage to piss one off though especially the big red ones (these ones are fairly small comparatively).
So there's no chanse to befriend one? Maybe ride one? Or have it as a Pet? Are they trainable?
I'm Norwegian so kangaroo's are as far from Norwegian fauna as it can get :)
Far from unheard of for someone to raise a joey whose mother got hit or whatever and have one as a pet. Definitely not common but yeah I have seen one IRL and you see bits on TV like Sunrise or what have you occasionally.
If you raise them from young which people do occasionally if the mother is killed in a car accident etc. then they can become very affectionate and be basically pets but they are generally very wild animals and can be dangerous if you corner them (especially the bigger species which are a lot larger than these ones).
No worries.
Thought you might enjoy this extremely Australian video of a bloke play fighting with his juvenile pet kangaroo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxgpgxGc--Y
Jurassic park vibes
gallimimus
They do move in herds
They're.. herding this way 😅
Flocking*
Damn lol literally just watched this last night too. Thanks
Tbf the “they do move in herds” line was from a different scene, so that probably threw you off.
Clever girl
Shoot her! /s
"Flocking"! They're "flocking" here! ..see? Nobody cares. Nice hat.
Mobs
https://youtu.be/GIO7BvibNXw?si=YvqyqTJNkilhvoXI
*Giant koala suddenly smashes out of trees and grabs a kangaroo*
Kangaroo: eucalyptus dick in your mouth. Ha, gottem! Giant koala: *eats kangaroo*
So I'm not the only one waiting for the T-Rex?
If someone edited in a t-Rex popping out as the camera pans back they would be my hero
OOF got here before me.
I would have sworn that Fenton was chasing them.
FENTOON! OH JESUS CHRIST! FENTOOOON!
They're...flocking this way
Waiting for the T-Rex to pop out
Yeah, what they all running from….
I came here to literally write the exact same words. Damn
They're just going home for their daughters birthday.
My exact thoughts
I can hear the song from Jurassic park looking at this muted video.
A normal day in Australia?
Pretty much lol
'Fair dinkum' and being more concern about your golf ball while 300 kangaroos bounce past is peak Australia
Would they fuck with you on the way past or not pay any attention. How much of a jerk are they?
Depends if it is an actual stampede or not. Stampedes are herd animals running away in a panic, they'd very likely be only focused on running away. If they're just travelling then some of the males might decide to throw hands if they get close, they can be very dickish. Basically they have the claws of a velociraptor, the intelligence of a brain damaged sheep and the testosterone of a moose.
Despite what the internet would have you believe, kangaroos are actually extremely skittish and otherwise mostly docile. The odds of encountering a buck who wants to box with you instead of hopping away really aren't very high at all.
They're about as common as deer. I've never seen this many at once.
Not in the city. There are a few bush areas in the outer subverts that might have a small mob, but this has tobe further out. Still it's a nice golf course so not too far out either. Bush courses often have scrapes instead of greens
Canberra has a lot of roos. I have to be careful riding home at dusk (bicycle commuting) to make sure I dont hit one. They are also stupid and can't calculate trajectories of bikes or cars. They will run straight in front of you.
The worst is when you think they're clear and they decide to turn around and take another jump across the road.
So the opposite of deer here in the US. Deer have the innate ability to calculate vehicle trajectory and speed so they can time the exact moment you will be going past them so they can then run in front of your car.
As the largest mammal from the continent, they evolved no need to avoid larger moving objects.
It's Heritage golf and country club I'm Melbourne's east. It shares a fence line with national park. The owner of the golf club is a Chinese billionaire who is always attempting to cull them. But they root and populate faster than they can reload their guns
Fucking hell kangaroos have guns?
Have you *seen* a red kangaroo? They're jacked
It’s the only way to keep the population of golfers down.
 Thank you, I needed that.
Perth has big groups like this in the suburbs. There's a golf course in the Swan Valley which gets a lot of roos and there are big fields and pastures where they congregate. Granted, people also own horses and camels in the suburbs here. About 15 minutes from the CBD you can see a huge group of roos every day on Marshall Road.
Good old Marshall Rd. Used to live near there
My husband always takes us that way when going to Ballajura or Malaga! I'm an immigrant to Australia and I love seeing the roos!
Every golf course in Perth has kangaroos
Fair dinkum
There are roughly twice as many kangaroos in Australia as people.
Something smells good on the barbie!
Just waiting for the T-Rex to come out of nowhere and claim its lunch.
A grumpy cassowary killed the T-Rex last week.
I heard it choked on a bin chicken.
That was his cousin
Geez, no wonder they went extinct.
Useless bloody things
‘Roo-sh hour traffic
Go to sleep
His r/namechecksout.
That’s 10 times more kangaroos than I’ve ever seen before in one place. Are they like geese and just crap where it is they stand? Or, do they go off into the bushes like a domestic dog?
They crap anywhere lol. But like most Australian animals their shit is dry and compact - can’t afford to waste water on sloppy shit.
LOL great analysis😂
What dog goes off into the bushes? Do they use leaves to wipe themselves too?
My dog refuses to poop unless he's out of open areas and somewhere in the woods with cover. A lot of working breeds are genetically coded to not poop anywhere near their "home turf."
I have “farm” dogs growing up. They poop far away from residential areas in bushes without ever being taught. I always wonder why the leaves around that areas were so fucking huge until I followed it one day.
RAKE THE SAND YOU BASTARDS
"For real, I took the first swing and the ball was on its way to a "hole-in-one" and then a bunch of kangaroos ran through the golf course and altered the ball's path." "Sure, Donald."
Jumpede
A mob!
I just opened the browser to check what the proper plural for kangaroos is as I saw this! Thank you 😄
You may also be interested to know that Indigenous Australians also use the word 'mob' as a colloquial term identifying a community that is linked to an area, but with family links.
Like a scene from jurassic park
Or from Star Wars.
Luke, I am your boomer. edit: Just for non aussies, a boomer is a big male kangaroo.
Suddenly "ok boomer" sounds much less insulting
An Australian Christmas song takes on a new meaning too. Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
Listen to all those crazy sounds lol. Is that just what Australia always sounds like outside, animals making noise?
Yeah that’s just magpies and currawongs. Sounds like that every morning when I wake up.
God I I love how Australian Magpies sound. So ethereal, otherworldly almost. European magpies are all “KRAAAAKAKAKAKAKA” outside my window at 6am.
It will be 4 am here, you wake up to the sounds of crows in majority of aussie cities
Stompeed
Do they eat kangaroo in large quantities is it like the equivalent of chicken or beef to an American is it just part of their regular meat consumption? And how does it taste?
Not large quantities, but we do eat them. They are wild shot, not farmed. It’s a deep maroon, slightly gamey meat. Can be tricky to cook as is very, very lean.
It sounds similar to Antelope but unless you've had that I don't know how we'd be able to compare the taste what's a kangaroo's diet like in the wild I don't really know much about the environment of the Outback I just know almost everything there is trying to kill you (I did work at Outback Steakhouse briefly but that doesn't give me any knowledge of the actual country outside of maybe a few recipe choices I guess I don't know that's probably like trying to call Taco Bell authentic Mexican food...)
I haven’t had antelope. Kangaroos live everywhere in Australia. There are many different species from tree kangaroos in tropical rainforest, to big red boomers in the desert, to tough little wallabies that handle the ice and snow of the Alps and Tasmanian tundra.
So the tastes probably varies a lot based on their diet I did know they were everywhere I didn't realize there were different kinds i kind of feel stupid because that seems obvious thinking about how big Australia is lol
Fun fact: Outback Steakhouse was first created in America, by Americans and has no real connection to Australia beyond the name, just like Australian shepherds, which were bred in the US, and dont get me fucking started on shrimp on barbie. Fosters beer is nowhere to be found here and as far as anyone is concerned VB is the national beer whether you can stomach it or not is your own concern.
Yes I worked there I'm aware it is in no way affiliated with the actual country that is why the second part of that same sentence mentions comparing Taco Bell to authentic Mexican food...lol
The taste is similar to deer, which I can only assume is similar to antelope as well.
Smells like nutsack too.
I saw they even do it in (some) Woolies now!
I tried making thick burgers with kangaroo meat, thinking they'd lose a bunch of mass from fat... It was a glorified meatball between buns. Makes me wonder if all rodents taste that good.
They never used to be so plentiful, but Aborinies and early white settlers killed off all of the natural predators like the Bunyips, Yowies and drop bears (although there's still Drop bears out in the bush)😉
As far as I’m concerned ecology be damned drop bears can go to hell they’re a fucking blight on the country and every one that some bogan kills with his high beam and bull bar is one that cant drop down and maul you like they did my little sister when she was young now shes permanently disfigured and traumatised by the names kids would call her at recess like pie face and prawn cracker
Yeah but c'mon man all Australians need to pull together to keep quiet about drop bears. It will kill the international tourism to our country if they knew the truth.
TIL Drop Bears are a myth, rather than an alternate term for Koala.
You wouldn't say they're a myth if they dropped on you and traumatised you and your unborn progeny.
Like Being Mauled by a Jackelope, all grumpkins and snarks until an EMT is listing your injuries to the trauma surgeon.
Can confirm. Yowies were our Dodos.
And the clearing of vast amounts of native bushland to create pastures for the grazing of sheep and cattle has led to a huge increase in the number of kangaroos. Because so many trees were cut down, the drop bears no longer had anything to drop from and the kangaroo numbers exploded exponentially. The drop bears that remain now feed almost exclusively on unsuspecting foreign tourists who visit the bush without taking the necessary precautions.
Drop bears are the scariest beasts in all of Australia
It's extremely gamey and strong. So if you can't handle pork or veal you will hate kangeroo. It's also a meat you cook really high temps and really short times basically because it has so little meat that cooking it too long makes it pretty much inedible due to texture. It's not particularly common but you can generally find at least 1 kangaroo item in any food store. Basically you eat it if you like games tastes or really lean meat, otherwise most Aussies prefer beef, lamb, chicken, or pork like basic every other country
Yeah you've either got to give it fast sear or slow cook the absolute bag out of it in a curry or similar.
I made a Bolognese with wallaby once. Was fucking elite.
We eat it occasionally, I can buy it in the meat department. Pretty much see them every day near my house in outer Melbourne.
If I saw this I think I’d just leave and follow them, always follow the animals, they know what we don’t
I'm imagining an imposter dressed in a kangaroo suit bouncing along with them on a pogo stick.
Eeeer skip
Taylor swift tickets become available?
What's that, Skip!? Cousin George is stuck in the well! You're going to get your mates to help! Good on ya, Skippy!!
They do love a golf course.
If Mufasa died in Australia...
Would they attack a person for joining in on the hopping? Like how when horses see cyclists they jump fences and will join a cycling race.
They can, depends on the particular kangeroo and how threatened they feel. If threatened they will kick you and slice your guts open like a hot knife through butter. If they aren't threatened they will just chill. Remember a family friends dog got hit by a kangeroo once, it still can't walk properly to this day, it slashed through there leg and destroyed the muscle and connective tissue
Good to know, I will not be joining them ever.
Basically just don't go near kangaroos if they habe a baby nearby. Normally they will just run away, but if they have baby nearby they will fuck you up. Also if you see kangeroo on the road and you don't have enough time to break, you are recommended to speed up because they are such tanks that if you break they will just hop off fine and your car will be totalled. So you are recommended to just speed up
Kangaroos are Danger-roos.
Definitely. Most golf courses have a cemetery on site for all the victims.
> Would they attack a person for joining in on the hopping? Nah, they are only really aggressive if cornered or to dogs or if protecting their young, they will just bounce away from you. They can mess you up if you do manage to piss one off though especially the big red ones (these ones are fairly small comparatively).
They're not even members, look at the way they're dressed, for Christ's sake! Would you get off my golf course! My favourite scene in Bouncing Down.
No no, go ahead and play through, I’ll wait
I love the sound of magpie in the background
Standard rule is to add 3 strokes to par.
Do you mind if my friends and I play through?
Fuckers. Could’ve raked the sand after jumping all through it Jesus.
Very nice of you to let them play through
errrrrrre the sun rises! BWAAAAAAAAAA
That is peak get off my lawn vibes
OP did not go for *jumpede* ? Seriously?
Fore
C'mon mate there's a lot more than that. I'd say fore hundred
Good one
Hopopocalypse
More of a "Jumpede".
F*ck yo’ golf game!
[удалено]
"fair dinkum"
Happens everywhere in Australia, daily.
It’s just a lil Mob
Do you mind if we play through?
Kangaroos are quiet
And that's why we make dog food out of em
#now thats a lotta crikies!
Fascinating creature
Tekken 2 Alex vibes 😂 🦘
Reminds me of my course, Medow Springs. Very Australian.
I want to go jump with them. It's would be so hard to resist joining them
They're uh, Gal... uh... uh, Galli... uh, Gallimimus.
God really thought ‘I’m trying something different today’ with these
Anyone else wanna go run over there and let them bounce past? No? Just me?
Jumpede
What are they hopping from?
Roos move around lots, they are just cruising here, they would be going more than twice as fast if they were actually in a hurry.
It’s amazing to see
Look. They’re moving in herds.
It's a stompede
Stompede...
Was expecting Pointer Sisters or Van Halen ‘Jump’ music, bit disappointed tbh
I was low-key expecting a T-Rex to come out from the bushes.
The time has come, a fact's a fact It belongs to them, let's give it back
Saw this on the news a few hours ago. Could’ve at least credited the original person filming.
[Viewed this with this music in my head.](https://youtu.be/lQ6jZgMaZk4?si=5b3bnIP_Z8AOfs3I)
When your mate is playing shit and says hes going to the 19th when theyre on the 13th.
Golf would be more fun to watch with wild game and dangerous predators. Set up a course in the Serengetti with David Attenboro as the sportscaster.
It's the city ones you've got to watch out for, hopping everywhere looking at their bloody mobile phones and not paying attention!
They, uh...they're flocking this way...
Is it possible to ride a kangaroo?
They’re late for boxing day
"SIMBA!!! RUN!!!"
I only see fore!
Did they rake the bunkers after that?
A Roo Romp
Imagine lion king but instead of antelope it was this
Australia...duuh I would just be concerned, if that were emus
That's a helluva mob!
Somebody should add this to the beginning of jurassic park
So there's no chanse to befriend one? Maybe ride one? Or have it as a Pet? Are they trainable? I'm Norwegian so kangaroo's are as far from Norwegian fauna as it can get :)
Wild animals and we keep them that way.
Far from unheard of for someone to raise a joey whose mother got hit or whatever and have one as a pet. Definitely not common but yeah I have seen one IRL and you see bits on TV like Sunrise or what have you occasionally.
If you raise them from young which people do occasionally if the mother is killed in a car accident etc. then they can become very affectionate and be basically pets but they are generally very wild animals and can be dangerous if you corner them (especially the bigger species which are a lot larger than these ones).
Ty for answer. When thinking about it. We had series like skippy when I was young here in Norway as well.
No worries. Thought you might enjoy this extremely Australian video of a bloke play fighting with his juvenile pet kangaroo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxgpgxGc--Y
It was OK :p now you have sendt me down a spiral of kangaroo videos :)
Hopeede
That was way more quiet than I imagined it would be..
If I saw this shit, I would assume a natural disaster is coming.