Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "American Reacts to 11 Worst Kangaroo ATTACKS - Australia" video.

  1. They are not always so difficult. Though my sister, 13yrs old, was laumch backwards about 3m onto her backside, at a local animal sanctuary. It had just had enough pf various children petting it. After the swift kick it hopped away about 20m and minded its own business away from the people. We had a wallaby, ie small kangaroo, settle into our camp one holiday period, opposite to the camp general store, with lots of people around, except it moved deeper into our camper annex when too many people came near. The ranger threatened us with a fine, for restraining ot. We denied that. He chased it away but as he walked away it came right back. Several repeat chasing away and the ranger gave up, admitted we were not restraining it. For best part of a week it left overnight, but returned each day for most of the day. Other than a water bowel and the pdd slice of multigrain bread, we fave it nothing but shelter, and occasional stroking, which it was happy for us to do, but avoided much from others. The ranger isited a number of times and just shook his head, saying he had never seen anything like it before. Normally up to 100 or so crossed the camp from one hill largely grass covered to one more covered by light forest, as dawn/dusk respectively. A number of years later, I toured the same area, to visit limestone caves, with a cousin and his wife visiting from Germany. While waiting on cave session I got down a number of birds including Magpie, Crow, and parrot types, Lorikeet, Rosella and white cockatoo, by offering bread and biscuits. The visitors were so happy to get such closeup photos, especially the various parrot types that even sat on arms or shoulder, and Magpie taking food from fingers. All are totally wild birds, though used to people as the area has the camping section too. Anyhow later close to the cave entrance my cousin's wife saw wallabies on the adjacent hillside, but because the simple camera could not bring image close enough, she tried climbing the hill to get closer hoping they would not run away. Sadly about half way she slipped and came sliding on her belly down most of the way geeting a bit grubby with mud and grass. So disappointed, but I offered to call the walabies down. To their and a few others waiting on the cave tour, I soon had most of the mob down around us. My visitors got very close photos as they fed bread, stroked them and posed in various ways. A few of the other strangers also benefitted, but most stayed around us, as only we (I) had bread at hand. Personally I have not had to fight any yet, though some wild ones made clear I should not get too close, so ability to read reactions of animals is useful.
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