Wallaby in custody after bouncing over Sydney Harbour Bridge
August
Metanoia
Big bridge to be hopping over all the same, if it was headed for the North Shore it must be trying to mix in with the posh / toff/ elite. Had enough of the bogan swamps of the South Side maybe. After all he is a Swamp Wallaby and probably wants to see how the other half live. .
Gambeir
Celestial
I wonder if these critters could adapt to the America's. Why do we have to have people releasing pythons instead of wallaby's? It's kind of weird how some animals just stay in certain locations. I would think these small jobs would find the Southern US and Mexico so similar that they wouldn't know they had left home.
That photo above makes him look like a giant rat or mouse.
That photo above makes him look like a giant rat or mouse.
August
Metanoia
People in the USA do have them I think. In zoos you would. They are pretty clever they can adapt to most things . Bet you wouldn't call this one a rat.
Gambeir
Celestial
I've always liked Roo's but I'm not a big fan of rodents unless they are caged, but with Roos I'm a sucker for good looks and quirky locomotion. As a kid I used to read lots about animals but then life and money reared it's ugly head and after that the rest is a blurry waste land of lost time and wasted energy.
I was indoctrinated to like kangaroos by a perverted TV show called Captain Cye broadcast in the backwoods hillbilly country for children without brains. Anyways they featured some Wallaby that was always being pulled around on a leash or enticed to eat peanuts or some other unwanted food.
Kids today just can't imagine how terrible televison was unless they turn on the news and even these idiots have no story about the Wallaby; proving that after 6 decades TV is still being run by brainless imbeciles, which makes sense given that the original content was broadcast to children without brains. So there you go, nothing has changed in 60 years, it's still a wasteland.
I was indoctrinated to like kangaroos by a perverted TV show called Captain Cye broadcast in the backwoods hillbilly country for children without brains. Anyways they featured some Wallaby that was always being pulled around on a leash or enticed to eat peanuts or some other unwanted food.
Kids today just can't imagine how terrible televison was unless they turn on the news and even these idiots have no story about the Wallaby; proving that after 6 decades TV is still being run by brainless imbeciles, which makes sense given that the original content was broadcast to children without brains. So there you go, nothing has changed in 60 years, it's still a wasteland.
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August
Metanoia
I fed them all the time the moochers are always outside waiting for a free feed. They are wild but will tolerate you patting them if your giving them some food. There are lots of varieties of Wallabies ,Kangaroos and other things. We had a tv show here once called Skippy about a bush Kangaroo, well he was really a Wallaby but not many overseas would know the difference. There was even a comic book. Skippy was very intelligent he ( really a she ) could open doors ,play the drums ,communicate with humans and even catch bankrobbers.
Gambeir
Celestial
Moochers I've already got, only mine have wings that beat at 260 strokes per second, and they get pissed off if you forget to keep their sugar water filled. Fearless and a little wacked I think, they will hover in your face and chirp out insults when you fail in your duties, otherwise they couldn't care less what you're doing.
Anyways, Skippy is cute and all but I think you've got a rodent infestation which needs addressing. I have a criminally inspired plan in mind here to make money endlessly using nature. First we convince Australians that there's a roo rodent problem, which is probably not too difficult, and then we bring in the guns to arrest the situation. The guns being our highly trained killers known as Fossa. See my post here for details.
Would you like to make contact with an alien race? Why?
Meanwhile we smuggle breeding roos into the Southern US via Mexican smugglers who usually deal with people, but being small rodents the job should be easier, and who cares if they escape, that's the whole idea eventually anyways. Thus after the problem is solved in Australia we can move on to the now problematic United States.
I figure China is a ripe plum waiting to be picked so that's probably next on the agenda.
August
Metanoia
Have no fear they are culled down here you often see Roo utes with kangaroos and wallabies hanging off the sides of them on hooks. People feed them to their dogs or the tourists. So no problems with the hoppers here. Good bush tucker 98% fat free.
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Gambeir
Celestial
OMG....So broadcasting to children without brains was an international plot? Well, I have to say that as a critical reviewer the Skippy program was head and shoulders over Captain Cye. Skippy seems to have been a kind of land locked Fipper, what with all the sharks in Australian Waters it probably made more sense than trolling kids behind boats with large fish pretending to be actors.
Gambeir
Celestial
You're going to regret releasing that thing ya know. See, most people think a Wallaby is a kind of kangaroo but that's a myth created to sell gullible tourists expensive travel packages to a see wild lands and interesting animals, all of which are freely available by simply traveling to Louisiana, California, and other states here in the US. Here in the US the relative of the Wallaby is a Nutria, also known as a swamp rat, which is a semi-aquatic rodent, whereas a wallaby is a semi-bipedal bridge rat, more like a desert rat but larger and without the inclination to live in a sand hole. I don't get the swamp part though, like how is a wallaby a swamp creature? What, it has webbed feet and no one bothers to mention it?
The Secret War on Giant Rats.
'The good Lord couldn't get rid of them': Louisiana's quest to hunt the swamp rat
California’s Invaders: Nutria
California’s Invaders: Nutria
California Department of Fish and Wildlife - State of California
Left to right: beaver, nutria, groundhog, muskrat. An adult nutria is about 1/3 the size of an adult beaver and over 5 times the size of a muskrat.
I have a natural solution here but I think it will also eat the cats and dogs in the neighborhood as well.
Fossa | National Geographic
Still...all solutions are on the table....I think. Again, I'm trying to raise money to breed and import Fossa for pest control in Australia and now I'm expanding this to include California, Louisiana and DC, and of course anywhere pests are problematic.
Little post I made on the Fossa is here.
Would you like to make contact with an alien race? Why?
Now are there any other problematic creatures in your area?
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August
Metanoia
You're going to regret releasing that thing ya know. See, most people think a Wallaby is a kind of kangaroo but that's a myth created to sell gullible tourists expensive travel packages to a see wild lands and interesting animals, all of which are freely available by simply traveling to Louisiana, California, and other states here in the US. Here in the US the relative of the Wallaby is a Nutria, also known as a swamp rat, which is a semi-aquatic rodent, whereas a wallaby is a semi-bipedal bridge rat, more like a desert rat but larger and without the inclination to live in a sand hole. I don't get the swamp part though, like how is a wallaby a swamp creature? What, it has webbed feet and no one bothers to mention it?
The Secret War on Giant Rats.
'The good Lord couldn't get rid of them': Louisiana's quest to hunt the swamp rat
California’s Invaders: Nutria
California’s Invaders: Nutria
California Department of Fish and Wildlife - State of California
Left to right: beaver, nutria, groundhog, muskrat. An adult nutria is about 1/3 the size of an adult beaver and over 5 times the size of a muskrat.
I have a natural solution here but I think it will also eat the cats and dogs in the neighborhood as well.
Fossa | National Geographic
Still...all solutions are on the table....I think. Again, I'm trying to raise money to breed and import Fossa for pest control in Australia and now I'm expanding this to include California, Louisiana and DC, and of course anywhere pests are problematic.
Little post I made on the Fossa is here.
Would you like to make contact with an alien race? Why?
Now are there any other problematic creatures in your area?
Got bad news about your Fossas they won't last long against our Devils.
Gambeir
Celestial
I forgot about the Tasmanian Devil but it made me recall the Tasmanian Tiger that had once existed. Also I looted Nat Geo for info on the Fossa but discovered that info is in error. They said it has retractable claws like those of cat, but in the images you can clearly see it's got claws like those of a dog which aren't retractable. Honestly, corporate writing has been so contracted out that the people blathering about a living creature aren't even bothering to examine the photo's the of animal they are talking about. Makes ya wonder what else might be wrong.
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August
Metanoia
I forgot about the Tasmanian Devil but it made me recall the Tasmanian Tiger that had once existed. Also I looted Nat Geo for info on the Fossa but discovered that info is in error. They said it has retractable claws like those of cat, but in the images you can clearly see it's got claws like those of a dog which aren't retractable. Honestly, corporate writing has been so contracted out that the people blathering about a living creature aren't even bothering to examine the photo's the of animal they are talking about. Makes ya wonder what else might be wrong.
I would really love to have one of these they are a most unusual and attractive animal. I have never seen one of them before. The Tasmanian Devil has a jaw strength 7 times stronger than a large dog so they just about chew up anything and with their bad tempered behaviour just makes it worse.
CasualBystander
Celestial
Is there enough Thylacine DNA around to recreate them?
just makes it worse
You mean better don't you?
As an aside Australia must be a pretty peaceful place if police officers don't have anything better to do than arrest wallabies.
The wallaby appeared to be on the sidewalk or a pedestrian lane. Why did they arrest him? Or is this just an abuse of police power?
August
Metanoia
Some scientific types think so . The creature was on the way out genetically anyways so why bring back a flawed animal ?
Worse as in hard to tame. Very aggressive little devils. They growl and hiss and their ears turn blood red. Just like the bad tempered Warner Bros Taz. Our police are trained to do anything even rescue cats from trees or horses from swamps. Not like other places where all they do is shoot people . They arrested him as he didn't pay the bridge toll.
CasualBystander
Celestial
It wasn't clear from the story that he was a toll dodger. Now the story makes sense.
Your tiger sounds cool anyway. It is nice to try to keep the top predators if we can.
In the US we feed a few people to Puma as just the cost of keeping them around.
As far as the police and shooting, they are just trying to prevent recidivism.
August
Metanoia
The Devil is the next apex scavenger/ carnivore. I am sure your police are quite happy doing what they do. The Puma is a beautiful animal glad you still have them .
CasualBystander
Celestial
Why do wallabies look smarter than kangaroos?Big bridge to be hopping over all the same, if it was headed for the North Shore it must be trying to mix in with the posh / toff/ elite. Had enough of the bogan swamps of the South Side maybe. After all he is a Swamp Wallaby and probably wants to see how the other half live. .