[thomaskkk]

http://www.usnews.com/science/articl...oo-researchers

we see this happening on a regular basis around us. quite a few properties have wild roos visiting and mums and joeys are often 'mixed up'. roo mums will often have 2 or 3 at foot joeys of the same age following them and feeding from their pouch .. some joeys are 'taken' from bad mums and some are collected ... the collections happen after the rangers go on a shooting spree in the park.

[Buincchotourbss]

Had this happen at my SIL place in the Perth hills when joeys mother died of old age, unfortunately the young one that was kicked out needed to go to a local carer because it was too small to survive on its own and the mother wouldn't allow it to feed carer said joey swapping happened regularly in her enclosures. I wonder if this is a regular occurrence in mobs that young go to the nearest female when they are threatened. Good survival strategy.

Once saw a doe with kangaroo blindness being led around by a younger (last years young?) she female survived quiet happily for three years and raised two young to independence was still alive when I left the reserve. Brings a new meaning to carers.

[thomaskkk]

Once saw a doe with kangaroo blindness being led around by a younger (last years young?) she female survived quiet happily for three years and raised two young to independence was still alive when I left the reserve. Brings a new meaning to carers.

yep.... they are very 'caring' towards each other. we've witnessed sight impaired kangaroos being led around. we've also seen them try to help lift up a mob mate who was having difficulty getting to his feet after breaking his tail. they hover and give comfort to each other when one is hurt or unwell. they also show a very caring attitude towards their human mob members too. they will even lick our arms when we are stressed ( it is something they do to themselves) and will be protective towards us. rough play with 'mum' is fine unless mum is not well... then the older mob members chastise them. i love them so much.

[thomaskkk]

another incident comes to mind too. a carer friend in our locale has shared her property with 100s of wild kangaroos over the 30 odd years that they have lived there. bad roo mums regularly dropped their joeys when c or a were around to pick them up before wandering off.
one old darling they had known from a joey left her just furring joey on their doorstep and hovered around till they picked him up, before wandering off to die.
c and a were distraught when she did it because they knew she was going off to die. she had always been an exemplary mum.
c is quite amazing.... i call him the roo whisperer... he has the confidence of the mob and is able to mix with and handle the head bucks. to see an elderly man standing with his arm over the shoulders of a huge battle scarred wild buck is awe inspiring.

[suilusargaino]

c is quite amazing.... i call him the roo whisperer... he has the confidence of the mob and is able to mix with and handle the head bucks. to see an elderly man standing with his arm over the shoulders of a huge battel scarred wild buck is awe inspiring.

Beauty God love ya' Both!

[Buincchotourbss]

We had a young euro that got scared off when a member of the public drove up to our house. She was about 3kg and just having a hop around the yard, lost her and never saw her until one day (a year later) there was a commotion on the front porch, and there next to the glass door was a 30kg fully grown euro and on the other side of the garden fence was a fox which had been chasing her. We could approach her as long as the glass door was closed as soon as we started to open the door she would hop a short distance away. she had facial injuries having hit a fence or something. She stayed around for three days recuperating then hopped off never to be seen again
We assumed it was the young one grown up, and remembered that our home was a safe haven. Lovely animals to have around all with different personalities. Very affectionate if you allow it.

[thomaskkk]

We had a young euro that got scared off when a member of the public drove up to our house. She was about 3kg and just having a hop around the yard, lost her and never saw her until one day (a year later) there was a commotion on the front porch, and there next to the glass door was a 30kg fully grown euro and on the other side of the garden fence was a fox which had been chasing her. We could approach her as long as the glass door was closed as soon as we started to open the door she would hop a short distance away. she had facial injuries having hit a fence or something. She stayed around for three days recuperating then hopped off never to be seen again
We assumed it was the young one grown up, and remembered that our home was a safe haven. Lovely animals to have around all with different personalities. Very affectionate if you allow it.

3 kg >:/ poor baby. that's very young to survive on its own.. our euros are around 15 kilos in their second year.. adult weight for a doe is normally reached around 4 to 5 years of age.
and yes, they are delightful animals....they crave affection. if you are lucky enough to witness them raising their own young you will see that the affection they get from, and give, their own mums is very important to their well being.

[Buincchotourbss]

joey you are quiet correct my good wife rightly pointed out that it was two years later which makes it all the more remarkable and the weight was only an estimate but she was very large and bulky, from the behavior we could only assume it was the one we raised, as we do/did not tag then in any way as we were on a very large bush property at the time (1000s of ha) with no shooting. Observing them with their young is a delight especially when they are just hopping in and out of the pouch.

[thomaskkk]

she was a very lucky girl then... that sounds like an ideal soft release area.

[Buincchotourbss]

Yep it was a lovely spot successfully released about 8 some we raised and some from the local postie who had the country run and collected joeys along the way, we use to share raising and all were released from our home paddock into the surrounding bush, unfortunately moved on from those surrounds to new pastures for us.