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Quick-thinking witnesses rescue kangaroo

submitted by BSR

5 months ago

Quick-thinking witnesses rescue kangaroo stranded in Australian lake

A group of men jumped into a freezing cold lake to rescue a kangaroo that had gotten itself stranded there. ‘Well done to these two guys absolute champions – bloody freezing – good news the kangaroo came good,’ David Boyd, who filmed the moment, wrote in a Facebook post

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Moving this video to BSR's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

I live near this lake, and it's pretty shallow on the edges.
Kangaroos will naturally jump in water to get away from people and their dogs (see all the news articles about them drowning peoples dogs), but then they can't get out because of the wall.

What you see here is a semi-regular event at Lake Burley-Griffin, and sometimes the roos don't make it out.

The more you know.

Is there some reason they can’t put in an escape ramp?

I live near this lake, and it's pretty shallow on the edges.
Kangaroos will naturally jump in water to get away from people and their dogs (see all the news articles about them drowning peoples dogs), but then they can't get out because of the wall.

What you see here is a semi-regular event at Lake Burley-Griffin, and sometimes the roos don't make it out.

The more you know.

The lake is huge, so even if you spaced out a ramp every few hundred metres, you're talking a lot of ramps.

The water also isn't good for swimming, and I think ramps would give the wrong impression.

Is there some reason they can’t put in an escape ramp?

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