A video of a pack of canine warily trying to assault a big japanese gray kangaroo has reignited a claims that kangaroos lead canine to water to drown them.
Disturbing footage captured a kangaroo standing in a creek as 4 canine barked at it from the shore.
Out of the blue, a black canine dashed ahead and lunged on the kangaroo, solely to be knocked away. The opposite canine then charged towards the kangaroo, however none tried to chew it.
After forcing the kangaroo to the opposite facet of the small creek, the canine backed off and returned to their proprietor – who stood filming close by.
Some viewers expressed concern, with one claiming ‘kangaroos lead canine to water to drown them’.
This principle was rapidly challenged by a kangaroo knowledgeable, who mentioned the marsupials by no means provoke such confrontations, and solely battle again in self defence.
‘Kangaroos do not lure canine into hazard, they retreat into water as a final resort to defend themselves from assault. They battle again solely in self defence, and that is clear within the video,’ Alyssa Wormald, from the Victorian Kangaroo Affiliation informed Yahoo Information.
A kangaroo (pictured) fought off a pack of canine however an knowledgeable warned the stress alone from the assault may have killed it
Ms Wormald condemned the proprietor of the canine within the video for not protecting the pets away from the kangaroo.
She mentioned one canine chew might be sufficient to kill the native animal.
‘It is so upsetting to see this magnificent kangaroo retreating in terror within the water. The saddest half is that if he sustained only one chew he’ll probably die slowly from an infection,’ she mentioned.
‘If that does not kill him, likelihood is he’ll die from stress myopathy. Male kangaroos look large and difficult however they’re like all kangaroos, fragile and simply careworn.’
Many others additionally referred to as out the proprietor of the canine.
‘Critically why would you let your canine close to [a] poor kangaroo,’ one individual wrote. ‘Management your canine, fortunately it was a kangaroo and never a toddler,’ one other mentioned.
The kangaroo appeared shaken by the incident however was not injured.
