I stumbled upon this article when checking world news. I couldn't quite believe it!
Have a read for yourselves.... http://tinyurl.com/kanga
Kangaroos spotted hopping around Japan!!! :)
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Re: Kangaroos spotted hopping around Japan!!! :)
Wow... I'd love to find out if those get confirmed!
We've had something kind of like that happen around here...
http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-15 ... --,00.html
We're still waiting on more evidence etc.
I think I'd rather have kangaroos hopping around than large predatory cats.
(Oh, and some friends of my dad's from the bait shop where he stops for coffee in the morning caught a large piranha in the lake by our parents house! People would have them as pets and release them into the lake, and they would survive the winters by staying in the warm water outlets from the power plant on the north side of the lake. The one caught was over a foot long! My dad has a picture of him holding it put up on their kitchen cupboard.)
Can kangaroos live through the winter?
They look pretty hardy and some seem to have good coats of fur...
We've had something kind of like that happen around here...
http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-15 ... --,00.html
We're still waiting on more evidence etc.

I think I'd rather have kangaroos hopping around than large predatory cats.

(Oh, and some friends of my dad's from the bait shop where he stops for coffee in the morning caught a large piranha in the lake by our parents house! People would have them as pets and release them into the lake, and they would survive the winters by staying in the warm water outlets from the power plant on the north side of the lake. The one caught was over a foot long! My dad has a picture of him holding it put up on their kitchen cupboard.)
Can kangaroos live through the winter?

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Re: Kangaroos spotted hopping around Japan!!! :)
Yeah, kangaroo fur is pretty thick and keeps them snug and warmphreadom wrote: Can kangaroos live through the winter?They look pretty hardy and some seem to have good coats of fur...

I find it hard to believe your piranha story, BTW!!
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Re: Kangaroos spotted hopping around Japan!!! :)
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/6 ... 2525_7.pdf
There's a mention of one in one of the official DNR reports.
http://conservationreport.com/2008/07/1 ... mment-6174
A whole discussion about some of the ones caught right in Muskegon lake (the lake I grew up on) in the comments of another article... (the article itself being another matter entirely that I don't agree with, just like the disclaimer at the top of the article)
http://www.macombdaily.com/articles/200 ... chive3.txt
Another article...
http://bucsfishingreport.com/blog/weblo ... _michigan/
It happens.
People toss them in the lake and they live just like bluegills etc. They can survive by staying in the hot water hole for the winter... and very large ones have been caught that way. Fortunately they are generally not a threat alone, only in larger numbers.
There's a mention of one in one of the official DNR reports.
http://conservationreport.com/2008/07/1 ... mment-6174
A whole discussion about some of the ones caught right in Muskegon lake (the lake I grew up on) in the comments of another article... (the article itself being another matter entirely that I don't agree with, just like the disclaimer at the top of the article)
http://www.macombdaily.com/articles/200 ... chive3.txt
Another article...
http://bucsfishingreport.com/blog/weblo ... _michigan/
It happens.

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Re: Kangaroos spotted hopping around Japan!!! :)
tokai devotee wrote:I stumbled upon this article when checking world news. I couldn't quite believe it! .......
Sounds as if they may have escaped or been released by a private "collector". If a breeding pair escaped or was released into the wild it wouldn't take long for their numbers to increase given there is plenty of feed about in summer. The population here explodes after good rains which, unlike Australia, Japan receives every year. Winter would be tough on them though...... Kangaroos are on show at many Japanese zoos and are able to be imported by individuals. ......
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Re: Kangaroos spotted hopping around Japan!!! :)
It seems like they're trying to make it a cash cow. (cash kangaroo??)

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