'What's up, Skip?' asks paraglider – before 'roo beats the snot out of him As if we needed another reminder that everything in Australia wants to kill you, the ongoing turf war between kangaroos and people has claimed another victim. Innocent paraglider Jonathan Bishop was landing at Orroral Valley in Namadgi National Park, near the capital city of Canberra, when his GoPro helmet cam caught an …
Hey City Boy, "wild animals" are EVERYWHERE. Either we wipe out the wildlife (no way!) or we coexist with them, total avoidance is not possible. I have several kinds of wildlife wander through my yard daily, including coyotes and various predatory birds. Peregrine falcons roost on an office building in downtown Atlanta - who's invading whose territory there?
The parachutist didn't mess with them at all, they ran a fair distance to attack HIM. There's no blame to assign here and you're a judgmental idiot to blame the evil nasty human. GAH...
not how can people live in Australia but why do they still live there. Sheesh, every crocodile, snake, spider, jellyfish and all other doesn't seem to have any other purpose in life than sending you (or what's left of you) to a funeral home
The fact very few Australians (or tourists) die from these creatures every year is why they can. It isn't like it is Jurassic Park over there.
I'll bet if you compared the per capita deaths from Australia's fauna and the per capita deaths from severe weather like floods, hurricanes, tornadoes etc. the weather is the worse killer.
4 years higher than Americans.
That's because so many Americans get eaten by crocodiles in Australia, enough to skew their entire average life expectancy. At one point there was a joke about Americans being crocodile fast food because so many were eaten in a short period of time.
Bushfires and floods are regular killers, wildlife not so much. I've seen first hand what bushfires can do and it's ugly.
On a lighter note, pretty much everyone here has had a good laugh at that video. Sure beats the hell out of watching politicians on the news.
I'ts tough living in Australia. I can tell you. I mean I have to go to the local supermarket for essential supplies and I'm dreading it. I think I would have starved to death in my home if it wasn't for the truck I bought from some bloke called George Miller.
Skippy thought he was a wedge-tailed eagle:
They display considerable adaptability, and have been known to team up to hunt large red kangaroos, to cause goats to fall off steep hillsides and injure themselves, or to drive flocks of sheep or kangaroos to isolate a weaker animal.
When hunting, the wedge-tailed eagle bears down on its prey in a long, slanting swoop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge-tailed_eagle
You think a kangaroo has legs like a raptor? Have you seen a bloody emu's feet?
Fortunately that US zoo has stated categorically they are not going to put down the leopard who, when a woman crossed the safety barrier to take a selfie with it, grabbed her arm and lacerated it.
Whether the woman should be put down or not should be left to a genetics ethics committee.
I recognise that landing site, a former NASA tracking station.
I love that my normally quiet home town has been the subject of a handful of articles on The Reg lately.
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