Australia: Paraglider gets ATTACKED by kangaroo

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An elderly Australian man has died at his home after being attacked by a kangaroo he was keeping as a pet, local police have said. The 77-year-old was found with serious injuries on Monday at a property in Redmond, a small rural town 12 miles outside Albany and around 250 miles south of Perth.

Ambulance crews were said to be unable to enter the house to treat the man as the kangaroo was preventing them.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

A West Australia Police spokesperson told the West Australian paramedics were called around 5pm after a family member had found the victim of the kangaroo attack.

They said: “At the property there was a kangaroo that was preventing the ambulance crew from accessing the injured man.

“The kangaroo is believed to be a wild kangaroo that was being kept by the injured man as a pet.”

Ambulance crews then reportedly requested police support at the property, and upon attending the scene, officers decided to kill the kangaroo.

A police spokesperson told the outlet: “The kangaroo was posing an ongoing threat to emergency responders.

“Attending officers were required to euthanise the kangaroo by firearm.”

The police spokesperson said it was believed the man had been “attacked by the kangaroo earlier in the day”.

Australia is home to around 50million kangaroos, which can weigh up to 90kg and grow to two metres tall.

According to WAToday, the kangaroo that attacked the old man was believed to be less than a year old.

The massive marsupials are known to pack a punch, but fatal attacks on humans are rare. This is believed to be the first reported in Australia since 1936.

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Graeme Coulson, a kangaroo behaviour expert, told ABC that kangaroos have “a lot of weapons” naturally at their disposal, including sharp teeth, claws and strong legs.

He said: “Certainly if they’re cornered or in some sort of distress, that can be quite dangerous.

“The problem with kangaroos and people is we’re both upright animals, we stand on our two feet, and an upright stance like that is a challenge to the male kangaroo.”

Horrific but non-lethal kangaroo attacks are more common in Australia, where the vast majority of the species live in the wild.

In July, a kangaroo left a 67-year-old woman with cuts and a broken leg after it attacked her on a walk in Queensland.

And in March, in New South Wales, a three-year-old girl was left with serious head injuries in a kangaroo assault.

The Albany region is home to the western grey kangaroo, of which males can grow to 70kg.

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