Just back from a fabulous holiday in India, and drove from Brisbane to home today, turned off the New England at Glen Innes
I hardly ever see a 'roo on the New England Highway north of Tenterfield but driving south today the road killed 'roos started just out of Brisbane and I gave up counting after the fiftieth and that's just the ones that died on the road, no one could know how many got away from the road and died in the bush.
The number of live ones waiting at the side of the road, ready to make a dash into oblivion was enough to have me slow down to 80 kph in 100 zones, fortunately being Sunday there was very little traffic.

Here's some good advice per the ABC:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-13/kangaroo-hits-increasing-say-panel-beaters-and-wildlife-carers/9987218

Not many around here, south of Brisbane. We usually have a mob of 20 or 30 grazing 5 or 6 properties of about 100 acres along the Albert river. There have only been about half a dozen for the last 6 months or so.

I don't know where they have gone. With the dry of the last few months, & the heavy frosts, there can't be much feed in the heavier bush in the ranges, & my dairy farmer mate has not had many on his irrigated forager crops.

I don't miss them. They give me a lot of work repairing the electric fences they rip down regularly. They are definitely not very smart animals.

Pacific highway has a dead one about every two klm, the newer parts had built in fences and other things to try to stop them and other animals getting on the road, often quite strange like the possum runs over the roads, and tunnels under them, even foot pads! sand, so poor fools like me could record weekly what type of beast went under the road, in time the feathers proved Foxes and wild dogs had found a new fast food outlet

Nice to have had a trip to India, but what has that to do with kangaroos? You might as well have just come back from the toilet if all you want to do is talk about kangaroos.

ttbn,

Thank you for that contribution.

The point of raising the issue is that many people are not aware of the dangers posed by 'roos, witness the number of dead 'roos on the roads: the link given is full of sound advice.

The legal owners of said 'roos take no responsibility for damage caused by them.

Still nothing to do with India, Is Mise.

ttbn,

"Just back from a fabulous holiday in India"
is what is known as an opening remark, kinda lets the audience know that I've a reason to be driving from Brisbane (where they have a user friendly airport, even if one has to go through the bottle shop to get out), and as you have so perceptively pointed out, has absolutely nothing to do with 'roos.

Is Mise thanks for the thread it is well worth intelligent contribution, some people are not aware our roo,s do not respond to car horns and such and yes they can even kill us if they are hit by the wrong car or drivers swerve

Here's a bit more on the problem,

"ACT Parks and Conservation director Daniel Iglesias said greater numbers of kangaroos were moving out of the bush and towards roads in search of greenery as a result, often with fatal consequences...It's almost like the perfect storm for doing it hard if you're a kangaroo," he said.

"We're having rangers called out to more kangaroos than ever before because we’re getting all those factors coming together this year."

Mr Iglesias said ACT rangers were called to 2889 incidents in which they pulled a kangaroo off the road or shot the animal in 2016. That number dropped slightly to 2634 incidents in 2017.

On July 17, just over halfway through 2018, Mr Iglesias said there had already been 2291 incidents this year.

"The way we’re tracking, it’s likely we’re going to have more than 4000 kangaroo incidents by the time the year is done," Mr Iglesias said."
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/act/record-number-of-kangaroo-crashes-as-animals-endure-harsh-weather-20180717-p4zryp.html
and the rest of the State is catching up, it's only a matter of time before the next human fatality in a 'roo crash.

Wow Is Mise, Brisbane is a user friendly airport you say.

I must have been leading a sheltered life of recent decades, avoiding Sydney & Melbourne, as I don't consider Brisbane user friendly.

When the kids were all around the country I gave them instructions to fly into Coolangatta airport if they wanted to be picked up. If they flew into Brisbane they could catch the train to somewhere more car friendly, 'cos' I wouldn't be there.

reminds me of a young gw alarmist 6 or 7 years ago scamming money at a shopping centre who was convinced kangaroos would be extinct by now. Should be eating more of them.

Dear Is Mise,

I take your point however this is a little arse about;

“many people are not aware of the dangers posed by 'roos, witness the number of dead 'roos on the roads”

I'm sure that should read not many roos are aware of the danger posed by humans as it is the roos who are lying dead along our thoroughfares.

The main reason for the carnage is of course the drought. Water runoff from roads creates a green strip along either side of them and in times of scarcity hunger overrides the roos natural fear of noisy roadways.

Bring on the rain.

Steele,

Unfortunately 'roos are among the least intelligent of animals, in the "Skippy" series the production team had to train 7 'roos to do parts of simple tricks, fortunately, it wasn't hard to get 7 that looked identical and bright Skippy did his tricks.

//Unfortunately 'roos are among the least intelligent of animals, in the "Skippy" series the production team had to train 7 'roos to do parts of simple tricks, fortunately, it wasn't hard to get 7 that looked identical and bright Skippy did his tricks.//

I believe they also made use of a taxidermied roo paw on a stick, for things that the dumb roos were just too thick to figure out. Ahh, the magic of television.

Read a semi amusing article a while back on roos.
Volvo had a team of engineers and self drive cars in Australia working
on sensor matters.
All went well and they left for Sweden. One of their cars was left
behind and was used by the company.
One day it crashed into a kangaroo. It did not detect it.
So the team and cars came back to sort out the problem.
The accident was caused because the obstacle detection system did not
expect to see animals falling out of the sky.
Software changes were made.

Bazz,

That reminds me of two very lucky blokes from Glen Innes, who were travelling along the Gwydir Highway and as they went through a cutting a 'roo jumped onto the car from on high, went through the windshield and joined them for the crash, fortunately, the car had a soft top and the 'roo ripped his way out so they only got a few claw marks and some slight injuries from the crash.
The car wasn't so lucky!!