Australian kangaroos?

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Candiceâ„¢

Hi well the outer suburbs do have the odd Kangaroo hop into the path of motor vehicles causing damage to both LOL

Yes there is huge amounts coming closer to cities coz of water shortage and lack of feed/grass in the country areas BUT hopping up,main streets it's a myth LOLâ™¥

Aussie the 2nd

It depends on where you live...I live within half an hour of a major city & there are kangaroos in the area but a passing motorist wouldn't see them.
If you go away from the coastal areas they are everywhere , especially at night ....in the day they seek shady spots & rest.
I guess many people rarely leave the suburbs of larger cities so of course they wouldn't see them.

oldemystic

The 'armchair experts' who have answered so far obviously don't do any travelling around when kangaroos are active, ie they are mainly nocturnal, you know.
When I was a wildlife carer in Brisbane, there would be at least a couple of dozen assorted macropods come into care each week, having been hit on suburban streets or dog attacks, thereby indicating that there are quite a few around the 'burbs', probably nibbling new growth in your front yard while you sit around watching TV documentaries on Australian wildlife. :)

Angelheart (above) your links lead to nowhere. I don't know where you've got your doom & gloom info from, but I think it's way off.)

rustupd

in outer suburbs or country towns you can see them if you know where to look (i see them within 1/2 hour drive of brisbane city)they are after fresh new grass like in golf courses

Kirra

Depends where you live. I live on the outer suburbs of a large inland city, and I see Kangaroos and Wallabies on a daily basis. Its not the most appropriate environment for them, but the loss of habitat forces them into populated areas. We also have deer and foxes living on the grounds of the hospital where I work.

Wild dogs are domesticated dogs gone feral. It happens everywhere, in every country in the world. Unfortunately in Australia they have interbred with the Dingo population. (The Dingo is a separate animal to the modern dog in that it yelps and howls, but it does not bark, it has a different gait, and its ears are always erect). Due to this interbreeding we have very few purebred dingos left.

Ozmaniac

I live in an outer suburb of Brisbane and we have quite a few kangaroos and wallabies around here though we only ever see them around dawn and occasionally, dusk. We don't often see them hopping along the street though; they're usually grazing in paddocks that can be seen from the road.

We also have dingos around here but they interbreed freely with domestic dogs and we only see the odd one that still looks like it has much dingo in its heritage. Fraser Island, because of its isolation from the mainland, has the only remaining pack of pure bred dingos in the country.
http://www.boxatrix.com/fraser/dingo.htm
http://www.aussie-info.com/identity/fauna/dingo.php

And while it's true that there are a (very) few species of kangaroos and wallabies that are threatened with extinction, kangaroos are in plague proportions in many areas. In 2008, over 3.5 million kangaroos have been legally harvested under licence over 4 states in order to keep numbers to manageable levels. It's estimated that in some areas, the number of harvesting licences will be greater in 2009 due to improved feed conditions towards the end of 2008 so they're hardly on the brink of extinction as your very ill informed answerer has stated above.
http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/trade-use/wild-harvest/kangaroo/quota/2008.html

dftm

That's like asking if lions and tigers and bears roam the streets in other counties.

lala

well not really, i don't live in the country or anything but i live in the northern suburbs of Melbourne and my area is surrounded by like huge parks, lakes, and trees, and most of it is fenced off for only animals, but every now and then you see one hopping around at the public park across the road.
it's kinda cool though when i see one i go "oo look there's a kangaroo at the park" haha.. it's pretty exciting

Cecil

Depending on where you are you will get Kangaroos in the suburbs. Try Kioloa or Erowal Bay on the South Coast of NSW. What do you wanna know about wils dogs?

Bella B

In outer suburbs where there are farm or acreages - yes. Or areas with parkland areas (State Parks) - likely.

It's unlikey that you'd see them in your built up areas like your typical surburban areas.with no access to food sources.

OzNana

I can tell you there were plenty dead on the highway to Canberra on the last couple of days....

dingo60

One of the few pure populations of wild dogs (dingo) left in Australia is on Fraser Island. Problem being of course that dingos breed quite readily with domesticated dogs, which is leading to pure dingos dying out on the mainland.

Most of the things people see along the East Coast are actually Swamp Wallabies or Eastern Greys.

The large red Kangaroos are a desert dwelling animal.

As a person who lived nearly all their life in a small country town, the last house before the bush started, I can tell you that I never saw a kangaroo or wallaby inside the town boundaries, although Mum and Dad's garden sometimes showed the signs of them visiting during the night. However, there has been no sign of them anywhere near the edges of town in around 20 years. Mainly due to development and fencing. The mob that lives in the area around town have been pushed back a little into the heavier tree'd country.

Despite what all the idiots from things like PETA say, kangaroos are not endangered. In fact, there are higher population numbers of kangaroos and wallabies since white colonisation than there were previous to this. Reason being, with land clearing for grazing land and much more access to water through bores and dams, the kangaroos have bred up to the conditions. During severe droughts, many need to be culled to give the mobs a better chance at survival and better access to grasslands and what water there is. Besides, would you rather see 50,000 kangaroos dying of hunger and thirst or see them die fast with a bullet. I know what I prefer.

lizzle sizzle

it is not true that kangaroos freely bounce down the main street of sydney but i have seen them in the outskirts of the suburbs. i live in campbelltown (suburban area 40km from syd) and we have kangaroos in our highly vegetated areas.

Tukmyhamster

I live in Perth and you certainly get them occasionally in the outer suburbs, although you mainly only see them lying dead by the side of the road when they have been hit by a car.

Australia's wild dog is the dingo, believed to have come to Australia about 10,000 ago. It is the same species as ordinary dogs and can easily interbreed with them, for that reason I don't think there would be many pure dingoes left in the wild although you can see the genuine article in zoos.
If you call escaped and abandoned domestic dogs wild, then there are no shortage of them.

ixlinxs

They are grazing at Sydney airport when you arrive.
Planes have to dodge them on take off and landing.

Wild dogs!
We got plenty of them too.
And native wild dogs (dingos) as well.
They willl be grazing at the airport when you arrive.

No, not entirely, but there are some kangaroos in parks and places like that. But not just roaming around in streets.

Elliot

No that's not true, except in wildlife parks. If there were a kangaroo in the suburbs of a large city it would quickly be caught and relocated. You don't have to go too far out to find them, but I've certainly never seen a kangaroo in the suburbs. Koalas sometimes, but never kangaroos.

Lucky Number Slevin

i've driven up and down the coast from melbourne to sydney to brisbane and all the way up to cape tribulation.

the only roos i saw were in zoos and also (wild ones) in a camp site in a forest somewhere near the coast south of brisbane.

AngelHeart

Sadly the Australian Kangaroo is not freely seen all over Australia,as advertised this is very false in fact they are now very endangered of becoming extinct there are some varieties that are already extinct or very rare in the 80s you would have had more chance of seeing many in the bush but never hopping down the streets or on the airport tarmac this is false advertising from the Australian Government they are now a protected species rarely there may be one on someones country farm or outback residence but most are in zoos and even worse Australians are now beginning to eat them as a source of food I could never eat our Aussie Icon hope this helps there is a lot of misleading false advertisements plastered overseas about the Kangaroos good luck my friend

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