Ive lived in the country of mi. All my life and when my oldest brother was like 15 (late 90s) he and a bunch of his friends were out walking one night and seen a kangaroo hope out of a ditch, take a swing at one of his buddies before hoping off. It took 20yrs before we eventually found out a guy that lived by us was illegally harboring animals and a kangaroo was one that got out.
Was going to say a very large portion of the reports of Kangaroo sightings of Kangaroos acting like Kangaroos outside the south Pacific are likely part of the Exotic Pet trade. Edit: I think a lot of us would be disgusted to find out how many Bigfoot sightings are Gorillas, Chimps, and Orangutans that escaped from a private, likely illegal owners.
@@lilwaterbill6244 quokkas are extinct off of mainland Australia they say yet they're still exist on mainland Australia in Walpole. My point just because they say it's not so doesn't mean it is. I found an opossum in Collie and they shouldn't be there.
@birdsandthingsbeachandbush1064 Haha 😂 finding a native animal in Walpole that had previously lived there isn't the same as finding and American opossum im collie my bro. Some fucking looper managed to get an opossum or 2 in from the states is the only reasonable explanation for the latter
I too saw a kangaroo in Utah when I was 6. At least, I thought I did it. It was a deer standing on its hind legs to reach fruit in the apricot tree according to my parents. But I did come inside saying there was a kangaroo.
I was cooking in the bushes when I saw a rabbit about 50 yards away. It was quite tame, my presence didn't bother it. Turns out it was a piece of wood the entire time.
Here in England we have wallabies that are found all around the countryside. Theres only around 2000+ individuals in the whole country so they are still super rare but its crazy to think that without phones and captured specimens it would be a cryptid like the large black cats of england and wales.
Except that the main wallaby herd in Derbyshire is well-documented as being decended from a some that escaped from a private zoo during WW2. I can remember as kid being told to look out for them driving through on the motorway, and seeing some more than once. Rare, but not that unusual in the right places.
@@jeremywanner4526 Not really, apart from sparce big cat sightings (which are likely pets that have been released and their offspring, not a genuinely viable breeding population), the largest predator native to the UK is the badger, and the biggest thing they are generally recorded as killing is rabbits.
@@WILD__THINGS Yes, I did. There are several herds of wallabies in Derbyshire. Derbyshire really ain't that big. Seeing them isn't super rare, just not every day.
@jonathanj8303 It seems, I responded to the wrong comment. I know there are wallabies in England, I've seen people record them. My apologies. Removing my comment
There's a theory that the cryptid known as "The Enfield Monster/Horror" was a misidentified kangaroo. This sighting was made in Illinois and occurred in 1973 so it would match the timeline of the other kangaroos seen in middle America from the 1970s.
That’s funny, I live in Victoria Australia and there is a big forest nearby called Enfield State forest. I’ve literally got Roos in the back yard, they’re not all good news. The large males often attack pet dogs and can disembowel them with one kick. My American Akita keeps the cheeky pricks in line.
The problem with the kangaroo theory is that the man who first reported the Enfield Monster and shot at it was part of the US military that served in Australia... Meaning he knew what a kangaroo looks like up close so there's no way he could've not recognized one.
In the UK there is a small but stable Wallabie-Population, so i guess they are quite adaptable to new enviroments and here in Germany an escaped Red Kangaroo roamed an area for Years in the 1990s, which was sighted pretty often and never caught. I hope he is still hopping around and does Kangaroo-Stuff.😂
Unlike last months post about North American platypus, phantom kangaroo clearly occured because of human intervention since wallabies and kangaroos are far more common in zoo or private menagerie and much easier to kept in captivity to begin with. Its a easy guess if some of the careless menagerie caretaker incidentally causing their hopping pet to escaped.
@@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434 platypus's don't travel well hence why only Australian Zoos have them. They're not the only animals that have difficulty in captivity for breeding populations.
We had an escaped Emu on our deer hunting lease in North Florida for years before someone came in and trapped it and took it to an Emu farm. It would walk around the food plots and eat out of the deer feeders.
Back when I lived in Illinois, we had neighbors down the road who kept exotic animals. Some of these animals were wallabies that escaped every now and then. People would lose it and make up wild stories every time.
There are tons of wallabys in New Zealand. They're not great for the native ecosystem, but not as bad as possums I think. You can see them sometimes if you're out walking in the bush around dusk, although you're more likely to hear the little thump-thump-thump as they hop away.
What about Kiwi? I live in Borneo, and my yard has a garden, my house is close to a forest that is now gone. One night there was a strange sound in front of my house, my father brought a flashlight and found a kiwi bird, I know it's a kiwi bird from a shoe polish brand. That was when I was 8 years old, and now I'm 27 years old. My father and I left the bird lying in a safe place, it seemed like it was screaming because there was a weasel. And I never saw the bird again. By God's name it was a kiwi.
Well, the weasel probably ate that poor kiwi because they don't have much for naturally defending themselves. I suspect that could be why you never saw it again.
Sounds like America with deer. I ate a big fat 3 point whitetail my neighbor hit with her car last year. She was screaming and crying because it was rolling around in the field and bleating, so I went out and put it down.
i went to a fish store in NY once and they had a wallaby walking around. free roam. he had a little blue collar. he was breaking coral on the ground and he stopped when he saw me
@ i didn't know her name when i wrote the first comment, but the reviews for the place call her piper! i didn't get close enough to read the tag because i didn't want to make her uncomfortable since she basically froze when i turned into the aisle she was in
@@wesloughrie1 Can vouch for Rusa/Samba and Fallow Deer in the Canberra region. Have seen many on the roads out around Namadgi, Tidbinbilla (Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station), Googong and The Cotter. None of these names will mean anything to anyone but a local, but the deer are definitely here.
I got to meet a baby kangaroo at a local ball game once! Apparently there are Kangaroo farms here in PA (for their meat I think) been a few years, but if I remember right the little one was there along with other farm animals for people to meet and interact with. I even have a picture somewhere.
Its well know in Aus not to mess with Reds, especially around breeding season. Kangaroos in the wild rarely allow us humans to gwt close unless they have been fed, then they can be nuisances and even get aggressive with people if not fed. The best place to.interact with a Roo in Australia is in a wildlife park, we have plenty, and most of the roos there are quite happy to allow you to pet them and take photos, just don't be stupid and just pet thier heads and backs, don't try o touch thier pouch or pull thier tails, they can hurt you if you aggrevate them. As for the prehistoric carnivorous kangaroos... yeah eff that! Most of our wildlife here can kill you... but mostly if you leave em alone, they will leave you alone, apart from Drop Bears... gotta be careful of those!!
Yeah, Reds are bigger as a rule but I still wouldn’t mess with a grey. I’ve been around Roos, red and grey my whole life and the biggest roo I’ve ever seen was actually a grey. He was a genetic freak and I’ve never seen any other roo approach his size. About 20 years ago I was driving through Drake Common off the Bruxner Highway about halfway between Tenterfield and Casino when I had to stop to take a leak. I was five to ten meters off the road doing just that when I heard a grunting. I looked up and across a little ditch stood the biggest roo ever. He must have had a mob nearby and he was letting me know that it would be wise for me to back away. I took his advice. This isn’t a fisherman’s tale, and I’m not a tourist. I’ve never seen a grey bigger than a red other than this guy and he was huge. On another note, I’ve found that splashing dog or cat urine over myself before going out at night will deter drop bears.
@mathewaitken938 I've never seen a grey that large, but I did see two rather impressive specimens fighting while I was taking a trail ride near Broome. I'd never seen kangroos boxing before in the wild and I can say I wouldn't want to get tangled up in that. A bit of vegemite behjnd the ears like a perfume can help deter drop bears too.
I actually bought frozen kangaroo meat at Sprouts farmers market once. I was utterly stunned to see it in a grocery store in the USA south, of course I had to try it!
@@mari-du7wl I've had bison, and I knew of people eating snakes and alligators. I knew people raised emus but I did not know that they ate them and I have no idea what a rheas is.
13:45 Many quadrupeds that can walk on two legs will hop. From actual baboons to racoons. You can find videos of them holding something with their front paws and hopping away like kangaroos. I myself, witnessed with my own eyes a racoon take a Big Mac from a Marine's McDonald's bag while we were waiting for a taxi. The racoon hopped away and the Marine chased him around a tree. So I got to see him hop around quite a bit. It was hilarious, especially with the guy trying to get his burger back.
European wallabies when they get sent back to Australia: “I have seen things you wouldn’t believe! I have lost things you will never understand!” (They are describing their close encounter with a British person)
Great video as usual Lil Water Bill - in particular I like that it mentions several phantom kangaroo reports not covered by Karl Shuker's 3 part blog article series that introduced me to the topic. The story about the cops in Illinois who tried to handcuff an escaped kangaroo, and how badly it ended for them, cracks me up!
@@kensmith5694 I figured you have to disturb a nest or try to catch one to get it to sting. I have had them land in the deer stand with me while hunting and start boring holes in the wood, and they just leave me alone. Maybe it's because I thought they were harmless and stayed calm. 😂
Well I CAN tell you that I had a friend who lived on a farm that used to be a kangaroo farm before her family moved onto it in the mid nineties. So if anyone saw a kangaroo back in the 90’s (possibly 80’s- not sure how long the kangaroo farm lasted) near Atlanta GA they might have really seen a kangaroo!!!
I've seen a wallaby on a camping trip to the Lake District, in Cumbria, it was at Stonesthwaite, which isn't far from Keswick . I was only 12 or 13 at the time and was very confused, my two friends who were with me laughed at me and asked what I'd been smoking until one of them saw it, then he was also very confused, we thought it was a kangaroo, it was about 100 yards away up a hill, we were near the bottom of the valley When I got home, I went online and discovered we have a small breeding population in the UK, escaped from private zoos, petting zoos etc. There are videos and posts online of extremely confused English people seeing them, as I did 😂
X3 awesome you took the time to make this video man, great work (a lot of funny stories with these too) :D Wish I mentioned this when suggesting the phantom kangaroos before but I remembered "America's Funniest Home Videos" showed a video of a kangaroo hopping down a highway and tom remarked that the weirdest thing about the video is that "they're in Wisconsin." Probably not meaning to relate to "phantom kangaroos", but couldn't help thinking it when you mentioned the Wisconsin sightings XD
02:09 I remember it being theorized the reason for hoping in kangaroos was because of marsupials needing to be able to climb into a pouch prevents them from developing hooves like placentals which might also be way large extinct wombats walked more like bears than hippos or rhinos that they looked like Also it’s theorized the large extinct kangaroos like procoptodon were actually to heavy to hop and instead walked and ran more like bipedal dinosaurs but probably more upright since there pelvises actually show the same adaptations as ours do for holding up its weight
The zoo in Hamburg Germany had a species of kangaroo type critters running around free in the bushes when I was there. They were small and cute and there were quite a few just hopping around off the trail edges. They didn't approach people but they didn't run away either. Edit, maybe they were wallabies.
Okay, I have theory about this. King George III had pet kangaroos. He kept them at Kew. They loved it there and kept making more kangaroos, so he would give them away as gifts to various nobles and foreign dignitaries. This is all historical fact. The reason there are feral kangaroos all over the world, then, is because people got them as presents from King George. As usual, the British are to blame.
Given the range of habitats that they live in here in Australia, short of the Arctic or the middle of the Sahara, they can live and breed almost anywhere. If you meet a large red buck who is in a bad mood, over estimating their size is reasonable. Big ones can run to two metres tall, and they look massive when they rear up.
A single roo in the bush is a release/escaped solitary animal or a new adult male booted from the mob. If there's a breeding population likely a mob of roos would be witnessed. Made up of one dominant male and at least a couple of females with joeys ranging in size from adolescent to the cutest little roos you've ever seen.
@@lilwaterbill6244South America has reports of giant ground sloths and so does my area in the Arkansas Ozarks. There are several 4chan stories about them here that you can find by looking up the "gorp" and "big bear" here on TH-cam. At least one sounds really probable because they described a very short prehensile trunk which scientists have occasionally theorized they might have had.
Holy smokes! I have a friend who once called me only minutes after he had left my house to tell me that he had just seen what looked like a small kangaroo hopping around near the small tree/brushline between our field & the highway that he'd turn on to go home. And we live in Clackamas County, in rural N.W. Oregon, U.S.A. An escaped animal strikes me as unusual for this area due to it being a rather economically depressed location, the nearest zoo being about 30-35 miles through rough & forested, creek & river-filled land that has a rather cold temperate climate, & Oregon has very strict laws about owning "exotic species".
You know, some years back one night while driving down a very rural mountain road in California, I saw what I thought then was some kind of giant rodent thing crossing the road on two legs. Now that I think about it, it looked more like a kangaroo than a weird cryptid giant rodent.
The giant one near NZ wasn't seen again after jumping into the lagoon because it was eaten by a megalodon after it swam out of sight of the sailors. The one in NJ wasn't a kangaroo, the spotter just got over-excited and misidentified one of the native Jersey Devil population. The one from the 70's in Chicago needs some gritty cop-show dialogue. Senior cop: "Cuff 'im, Lou - one count trespassing, and one count of being a kangaroo." Kangaroo: "I'm not going back inside, pig!" The next several sightings across the midwestern US through the 70's and 80's were probably that same kangaroo from Chicago, still on the run and trying to dodge the warrant out for its arrest.
Lol, there was actually a loose kangaroo here in Florida for like 3 weeks up in Pierson FL, its owner said it escaped after a bear entered its enclosure.
@lacrosseguy108 Lol, yes, we also have some wild monkeys in Silver Springs because back in the day they wanted the glass-bottom boat tours to be more exotic, so they placed some monkeys on an island... The only problem was they didn't know they could swim, and they started breeding all over the springs and have now been spotted way down in central Florida and they have herpes so people are advised not to get to close when they're kayaking down the river.
@@noelramirez1551 thats so crazy lol. every now and then i come across" scary stories" on youtube that basically is someone after a tropical storm in florida seeing monkeys or similar stuff lol. crazy the animals that dont belong in areas are thriving. i heard theres some hippos in south america too!
One of the wallabies in NZ were on Kawau Island in the Hauraki Gulf, an island off Auckland, introduced in the 19th Century. The Department of Conservation declared they were a feral pest and would be culled in order to save the environment. They informed the Australian government and asked if they were significant to the Ozzies, but were ignored. They gave the Ozzies around 3 years I think but around 1 month before the culling was to begin the Ozzies finally responded and said they were a type of rock wallaby extinct in Australia, the NZ Department of Conservation told the Ozzies they had 1 month to capture as many as possible before they were culled. The Ozzies said they needed more time but NZ told them they had 3 years already, the wallabies were to be culled as scheduled and eradicated from the island. Wallabies, along with deer, possums and ferrets and rabbits and a whole slew of other introduced animals are an environmental disaster to the country, causing wholesale environmental damage.
So you killed off a rare almost extinct animal. No thought for how special it was. How lucky you were to have it there. NO thought for the rest of the world that has now lost yet another animal from the planet. Really?
The Red-necked wallabies which were taken to Europe and elsewhere came from Tasmania, so they are cold-adapted (I have a small mob which lives at my place in Tasmania, and they get very fat and furry every winter). They were popular for private collections on palatial estates. As that way of life declined, many were turned loose, especially in England.
The crazy part is know of three people personally who own kangaroos or wallaby or have owned kangaroos or wallaby (I’m in MD)- one of which would free range the wallaby on his farm every so often!
There are wild introduced Wallabies in New Zealand, particularly in the Bay of Islands. Locals disparagingly call them 'Rats with Springs!' Funny thing is that they can't be exterminated because they are a subspecies now extinct in Australia! As for the giant Kangaroo sighting in New Zealand you may be referring to an early Nineteenth Century encounter where the crew of a ship claimed they saw a giant kangaroo on the hills overlooking the seashore in Fiordland. The whacky historian Gavin Menzies has claimed that it was a giant ground sloth descended from ones introduced by Chinese explorers in the Fifteenth Century but more likely the witnesses in this encounter were drunk!
My bet would be either too much rum or a fog magnification or both. Mountaineers sometimes see giant images in the fog caused by refraction of light.
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A kangaroo eating meat isn't unheard-of, just like a deer will eat meat occasionally if its iron levels are low. Theres lots of pictures of deer with blood covered their mouths after feeding from a carcass, often another deer.
When you said, "What the hell, Australia?" I had to laugh. It sums up every non-Australian's thoughts about Australian wildlife. It's weird, wonderful, and deeply unsettling. :)
Nah mate. Not at all. What's wrong with a mammal that lays eggs, has a pouch and spines? Or the other bloke who lays eggs with a poisonous spur on the hind leg and beak like a duck (If it looks like a duck, make sure it quacks like one too, or it might just sting you if it is, in fact, a platypus!)? Or a bird that can kick 11 shades of shit out of you without blinking. Well, 2 of those, TBF, the Emu is no slouch and the cassowary, well... Or a plant that stings and leaves you with a bad enough pain for months or years after that people have died. Or... BUT AT LEAST WE DON'T HAVE BEARS!
Wallabies are in NewZealand there are 5 types but the larger ones in the south island are becoming Pests and spreading in the south island up to reports in Canterbury but around timaru and omeraru is the main place .there is a smaller species in the north island and 3 other species living on a large island .they are also wild in the uk
I believe some species of Wallabies are native in New Guinea which broke off from Australia relatively recently in geographic terms. It’s not a stretch to see escaped pets surviving if not breeding in many parts of the world. They wouldn’t be regulated like obviously dangerous animals such as the big cats or bears for example would be.
Yeah, here locally (Amarillo, Tx), two kangaroos escaped from a private owner and were hopping down I-40. Unfortunately, 1 got hit by a car; must've been an interesting insurance claim
As an Australian I would imagine that kangaroo sighting overseas would most likely be due to the animal being lost or set free on its way to a zoo or personal buyer (not that I condone owning a kangaroo) and has survived in the wild. They're able to adapt very well to alot of different environments so I wouldn't be surprised to see them thrive in another country. I wouldn't advise it as it would basically screw over the local ecosystem.
Wallabies are a pest in the South Island of New Zealand. Seeing any north of the Rangitata river in the South Island had to be reported and around the town of Fairlie they are often seen as road kill, I’d hate to hit one on my motorcycle cos they’re quite solid.
They are actually a lot bigger and stronger than you’d expect. It’s not their claws that you have to worry about it’s their feet. I’ve heard stories about kangaroos breaking people’s ribs with the power of their kicks.
I remember watching a news story as a child of a guy who had been swiftly castrated by a 'roo that kicked him with its clawed back feet. He was wearing jeans & everything. Apparently that didn't matter, though.
You would be surprised how many "Unit mascots" got smuggled "back home" after world wars ended, Astraya has "large cat" sightings of the offspring of Puma's and the like for the same reason.
I have not seen a kangaroo, but I know the feeling when I spotted a camel in a field in Finland. First saw it out of the corner of my eye and it didn't register for a couple of seconds before I turned my head back and had to do a double take. Turns out the local farmer was a bit eccentiric and har just straight up bough a camel and had it living in the field below his house....
There are over a hundred red necked wallabies living in the wild in Germany not to mention rhea birds in northern Germany and parrots are quickly replacing pigeons in several cities.
Out of place animal sightings are actually strangely common. Even in Australia wild big cat populations have been spotted for decades. My guess is they're escaped populations of animals originally acquired by exotic animal collectors and circuses.
I'm thinking a lot of the sightings were of actual quadruped predators that someone took a pot-shot at and scored a non kill shot, that went through the front limbs and made them wither (there's lots of examples, like the 'cryptid' pic of the wolf with the skeletonised front legs that seems to have learned to get around on its back legs alone or the black bear from a few years ago that walked everywhere due to damaged front limbs). The other Kangaroo sightings likely were actual escaped Kangaroos.
A predator like a wolf would probably survive, but probably because they are higher on the food chain. A disabled prey animal would just make a tasty meal.
Kangaroos and wallabies have thrived since the introduction of cleared land for crops and pastures, and there's no reason they wouldn't thrive in Europe or the US. In large numbers, they can damage crops, but they are far better environmentally than cattle, sheep, or goats. Many of our birds would also thrive in other countries, emus would love Africa and the US Midwest, desert states, and Mexico. Magpies and kookaburras would also thrive in many places, and they both benefit rather than damage their environment. Cockatoos would also thrive, but their impact would be disastrous.
How about a video on the established populations of capybara in FL. They have been spotted from north FL to south central FL. I have yet to find one in the wild but it is absolutely a fact that they are here.
@@ContentCrescentMoon-rh2joI didn’t watch the video but the title reminded me. I had forgotten. hey. The kangaroo was huge, like tall. And intense. Unearthly almost. Then it wasn’t there. And something was not at all right about it all. It was one of these ghost kangaroos for sure. It shook me at the time. Is this what the video is about? I have to watch the rest of it. And yeah, pt Lincoln would have janky cryptids, i can see that
Ive lived in the country of mi. All my life and when my oldest brother was like 15 (late 90s) he and a bunch of his friends were out walking one night and seen a kangaroo hope out of a ditch, take a swing at one of his buddies before hoping off. It took 20yrs before we eventually found out a guy that lived by us was illegally harboring animals and a kangaroo was one that got out.
Thats wild
@@lilwaterbill6244*feral
Was going to say a very large portion of the reports of Kangaroo sightings of Kangaroos acting like Kangaroos outside the south Pacific are likely part of the Exotic Pet trade.
Edit: I think a lot of us would be disgusted to find out how many Bigfoot sightings are Gorillas, Chimps, and Orangutans that escaped from a private, likely illegal owners.
@@lilwaterbill6244 quokkas are extinct off of mainland Australia they say yet they're still exist on mainland Australia in Walpole.
My point just because they say it's not so doesn't mean it is. I found an opossum in Collie and they shouldn't be there.
@birdsandthingsbeachandbush1064
Haha 😂 finding a native animal in Walpole that had previously lived there isn't the same as finding and American opossum im collie my bro.
Some fucking looper managed to get an opossum or 2 in from the states is the only reasonable explanation for the latter
I too saw a kangaroo in Utah when I was 6. At least, I thought I did it. It was a deer standing on its hind legs to reach fruit in the apricot tree according to my parents. But I did come inside saying there was a kangaroo.
I was cooking in the bushes when I saw a rabbit about 50 yards away. It was quite tame, my presence didn't bother it. Turns out it was a piece of wood the entire time.
@@gustavgnoettgen As they do!
@@terrafirma5327 I thought it liked me 😭
When I was a boy my father swore he saw a kangaroo in the mountains of Colorado. We have referred to this incident as the “alpine kangaroo” ever since
Here in England we have wallabies that are found all around the countryside. Theres only around 2000+ individuals in the whole country so they are still super rare but its crazy to think that without phones and captured specimens it would be a cryptid like the large black cats of england and wales.
Except that the main wallaby herd in Derbyshire is well-documented as being decended from a some that escaped from a private zoo during WW2. I can remember as kid being told to look out for them driving through on the motorway, and seeing some more than once. Rare, but not that unusual in the right places.
Are there any predators in the Uk that can prey on them?
@@jeremywanner4526 Not really, apart from sparce big cat sightings (which are likely pets that have been released and their offspring, not a genuinely viable breeding population), the largest predator native to the UK is the badger, and the biggest thing they are generally recorded as killing is rabbits.
@@WILD__THINGS Yes, I did. There are several herds of wallabies in Derbyshire. Derbyshire really ain't that big. Seeing them isn't super rare, just not every day.
@jonathanj8303 It seems, I responded to the wrong comment. I know there are wallabies in England, I've seen people record them. My apologies. Removing my comment
There's a theory that the cryptid known as "The Enfield Monster/Horror" was a misidentified kangaroo. This sighting was made in Illinois and occurred in 1973 so it would match the timeline of the other kangaroos seen in middle America from the 1970s.
That’s funny, I live in Victoria Australia and there is a big forest nearby called Enfield State forest. I’ve literally got Roos in the back yard, they’re not all good news. The large males often attack pet dogs and can disembowel them with one kick. My American Akita keeps the cheeky pricks in line.
I hunted with an Australian guy in Texas. He said he hated roos. Said they are full of worms and only good for making dog food. 😂
@Steve-ev6vx What about for leather works?
@@deathsyth8888 Yeah I imagine the leather is just fine, he just had a disdain for them.
The problem with the kangaroo theory is that the man who first reported the Enfield Monster and shot at it was part of the US military that served in Australia...
Meaning he knew what a kangaroo looks like up close so there's no way he could've not recognized one.
In the UK there is a small but stable Wallabie-Population, so i guess they are quite adaptable to new enviroments and here in Germany an escaped Red Kangaroo roamed an area for Years in the 1990s, which was sighted pretty often and never caught. I hope he is still hopping around and does Kangaroo-Stuff.😂
Unlike last months post about North American platypus, phantom kangaroo clearly occured because of human intervention since wallabies and kangaroos are far more common in zoo or private menagerie and much easier to kept in captivity to begin with. Its a easy guess if some of the careless menagerie caretaker incidentally causing their hopping pet to escaped.
I heard that those are quite common in the tri-state area.
@@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434 platypus's don't travel well hence why only Australian Zoos have them. They're not the only animals that have difficulty in captivity for breeding populations.
@@meikahidenori also according to David Fleay's book they really problematic to ship especially for food
We had an escaped Emu on our deer hunting lease in North Florida for years before someone came in and trapped it and took it to an Emu farm. It would walk around the food plots and eat out of the deer feeders.
Back when I lived in Illinois, we had neighbors down the road who kept exotic animals. Some of these animals were wallabies that escaped every now and then. People would lose it and make up wild stories every time.
Someone else just told this exact story. I think one of your neighbours is in the comments 😁
There are tons of wallabys in New Zealand. They're not great for the native ecosystem, but not as bad as possums I think. You can see them sometimes if you're out walking in the bush around dusk, although you're more likely to hear the little thump-thump-thump as they hop away.
What about Kiwi? I live in Borneo, and my yard has a garden, my house is close to a forest that is now gone. One night there was a strange sound in front of my house, my father brought a flashlight and found a kiwi bird, I know it's a kiwi bird from a shoe polish brand. That was when I was 8 years old, and now I'm 27 years old. My father and I left the bird lying in a safe place, it seemed like it was screaming because there was a weasel. And I never saw the bird again. By God's name it was a kiwi.
Well, the weasel probably ate that poor kiwi because they don't have much for naturally defending themselves.
I suspect that could be why you never saw it again.
As an Australian, if you want to find a kangaroo, just drive your car around fast late at night, youll get one sooner or later....
Sounds like America with deer. I ate a big fat 3 point whitetail my neighbor hit with her car last year. She was screaming and crying because it was rolling around in the field and bleating, so I went out and put it down.
@@Steve-ev6vx I smashed into a 6 foot roo at 110kph, the bastard thing got up and hopped away as if it were tuesday...... Car didnt make it.
@@sofnsad that sucks. She got lucky and it only broke her headlight.
as he said they fill in for deer so that tracks
i went to a fish store in NY once and they had a wallaby walking around. free roam. he had a little blue collar. he was breaking coral on the ground and he stopped when he saw me
Rocko?
@ i didn't know her name when i wrote the first comment, but the reviews for the place call her piper! i didn't get close enough to read the tag because i didn't want to make her uncomfortable since she basically froze when i turned into the aisle she was in
We have deer here now in Australia, lots of them especially in the south of the country.
Really? That's interesting
And it’s not just one or two species of deer, Australia is collecting them all rn
@StopMotioneditz Like Pokemon, mate. WE need all the Ferals.
@@wesloughrie1 Can vouch for Rusa/Samba and Fallow Deer in the Canberra region. Have seen many on the roads out around Namadgi, Tidbinbilla (Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station), Googong and The Cotter. None of these names will mean anything to anyone but a local, but the deer are definitely here.
@@AndrewFishman In Sydney ,at the Western Sydney Parklands, there are plenty of deer. I saw one on the way to work at industrial Wetherill Park.
I got to meet a baby kangaroo at a local ball game once! Apparently there are Kangaroo farms here in PA (for their meat I think) been a few years, but if I remember right the little one was there along with other farm animals for people to meet and interact with. I even have a picture somewhere.
This lady DEFINITELY saw an animal flying around in the tornado tryna not get airborne and said yep. Kangaroo
Its well know in Aus not to mess with Reds, especially around breeding season. Kangaroos in the wild rarely allow us humans to gwt close unless they have been fed, then they can be nuisances and even get aggressive with people if not fed. The best place to.interact with a Roo in Australia is in a wildlife park, we have plenty, and most of the roos there are quite happy to allow you to pet them and take photos, just don't be stupid and just pet thier heads and backs, don't try o touch thier pouch or pull thier tails, they can hurt you if you aggrevate them. As for the prehistoric carnivorous kangaroos... yeah eff that! Most of our wildlife here can kill you... but mostly if you leave em alone, they will leave you alone, apart from Drop Bears... gotta be careful of those!!
Yeah, Reds are bigger as a rule but I still wouldn’t mess with a grey. I’ve been around Roos, red and grey my whole life and the biggest roo I’ve ever seen was actually a grey. He was a genetic freak and I’ve never seen any other roo approach his size. About 20 years ago I was driving through Drake Common off the Bruxner Highway about halfway between Tenterfield and Casino when I had to stop to take a leak. I was five to ten meters off the road doing just that when I heard a grunting. I looked up and across a little ditch stood the biggest roo ever. He must have had a mob nearby and he was letting me know that it would be wise for me to back away. I took his advice. This isn’t a fisherman’s tale, and I’m not a tourist. I’ve never seen a grey bigger than a red other than this guy and he was huge. On another note, I’ve found that splashing dog or cat urine over myself before going out at night will deter drop bears.
@mathewaitken938 I've never seen a grey that large, but I did see two rather impressive specimens fighting while I was taking a trail ride near Broome. I'd never seen kangroos boxing before in the wild and I can say I wouldn't want to get tangled up in that. A bit of vegemite behjnd the ears like a perfume can help deter drop bears too.
Americans actually raise kangaroos for meat in some rural areas
We do!?
@@alidycepaisley3829 yea also emus,rheas,alligators,bison,camels and snakes
@@alidycepaisley3829 It's very lean meat. It's just difficult to farm them. In Australia they're culled so the meat is all game meat anyway
I actually bought frozen kangaroo meat at Sprouts farmers market once. I was utterly stunned to see it in a grocery store in the USA south, of course I had to try it!
@@mari-du7wl I've had bison, and I knew of people eating snakes and alligators. I knew people raised emus but I did not know that they ate them and I have no idea what a rheas is.
13:45 Many quadrupeds that can walk on two legs will hop. From actual baboons to racoons. You can find videos of them holding something with their front paws and hopping away like kangaroos. I myself, witnessed with my own eyes a racoon take a Big Mac from a Marine's McDonald's bag while we were waiting for a taxi. The racoon hopped away and the Marine chased him around a tree. So I got to see him hop around quite a bit. It was hilarious, especially with the guy trying to get his burger back.
European wallabies when they get sent back to Australia: “I have seen things you wouldn’t believe! I have lost things you will never understand!”
(They are describing their close encounter with a British person)
The rest of the wallaby population in Australia - "200 hundred years late, mate. They came here, you did not have to go there."
Great video as usual Lil Water Bill - in particular I like that it mentions several phantom kangaroo reports not covered by Karl Shuker's 3 part blog article series that introduced me to the topic. The story about the cops in Illinois who tried to handcuff an escaped kangaroo, and how badly it ended for them, cracks me up!
Love the rare/overlooked cryptid vids!
Fun fact: Unlike bumblebees wallabees won't sting you
Wait, bumble bees sting? I see em all the time and have never been stung. Unlike wasps and yellow jackets that come at you hard.
@@Steve-ev6vx Yes, they do sting if you mess with the hive. It is worse than a honey bee sting.
@@kensmith5694 I figured you have to disturb a nest or try to catch one to get it to sting. I have had them land in the deer stand with me while hunting and start boring holes in the wood, and they just leave me alone. Maybe it's because I thought they were harmless and stayed calm. 😂
@@Steve-ev6vx Yes, they generally only sting to protect the nest and there was no nest where you were.
Well I CAN tell you that I had a friend who lived on a farm that used to be a kangaroo farm before her family moved onto it in the mid nineties. So if anyone saw a kangaroo back in the 90’s (possibly 80’s- not sure how long the kangaroo farm lasted) near Atlanta GA they might have really seen a kangaroo!!!
I've seen a wallaby on a camping trip to the Lake District, in Cumbria, it was at Stonesthwaite, which isn't far from Keswick .
I was only 12 or 13 at the time and was very confused, my two friends who were with me laughed at me and asked what I'd been smoking until one of them saw it, then he was also very confused, we thought it was a kangaroo, it was about 100 yards away up a hill, we were near the bottom of the valley
When I got home, I went online and discovered we have a small breeding population in the UK, escaped from private zoos, petting zoos etc. There are videos and posts online of extremely confused English people seeing them, as I did 😂
Good work man!! I'm from Australia and you done that great. 👍
I’m surprised kangaroos haven’t become invasive anywhere yet.
There’s a zoo near where I live and they had wallabies that would escape like weekly into my art teachers back yard
X3 awesome you took the time to make this video man, great work (a lot of funny stories with these too) :D Wish I mentioned this when suggesting the phantom kangaroos before but I remembered "America's Funniest Home Videos" showed a video of a kangaroo hopping down a highway and tom remarked that the weirdest thing about the video is that "they're in Wisconsin." Probably not meaning to relate to "phantom kangaroos", but couldn't help thinking it when you mentioned the Wisconsin sightings XD
02:09 I remember it being theorized the reason for hoping in kangaroos was because of marsupials needing to be able to climb into a pouch prevents them from developing hooves like placentals which might also be way large extinct wombats walked more like bears than hippos or rhinos that they looked like
Also it’s theorized the large extinct kangaroos like procoptodon were actually to heavy to hop and instead walked and ran more like bipedal dinosaurs but probably more upright since there pelvises actually show the same adaptations as ours do for holding up its weight
There really are wild kangaroos in Texas. They got out during a storm and now there’s packs of them roaming around.
There is all kinds of stuff in Texas. Nilgai, axis and fallow deer, and all kind of other exotic animals.
@@Steve-ev6vx yeah, you can do a full on African safari without leaving the US. There are more tigers in Texas than wild ones apparently.
Kangaroos outside of Australia? I rather take my chances with fighting the Loch Ness monster. Thank you very much.
The zoo in Hamburg Germany had a species of kangaroo type critters running around free in the bushes when I was there. They were small and cute and there were quite a few just hopping around off the trail edges. They didn't approach people but they didn't run away either.
Edit, maybe they were wallabies.
Could be Wallaroos
@smalltime0 maybe, I don't know the difference between Aussie critters. I am FL Man.
@@comfortablynumb9342 tbh most Australians would struggle to tell a wallaby from a wallaroo.
Okay, I have theory about this. King George III had pet kangaroos. He kept them at Kew. They loved it there and kept making more kangaroos, so he would give them away as gifts to various nobles and foreign dignitaries. This is all historical fact. The reason there are feral kangaroos all over the world, then, is because people got them as presents from King George. As usual, the British are to blame.
They're not kangaroos, they're "not-kangaroos'."
Notaroo 👍
Kangaroos dont have a hatred for all things dog like lmao, theyll drown anything thats chasing them, it just happens to be dogs most of the time.
Um one got my sisters older dog while she was lying down
Given the range of habitats that they live in here in Australia, short of the Arctic or the middle of the Sahara, they can live and breed almost anywhere. If you meet a large red buck who is in a bad mood, over estimating their size is reasonable. Big ones can run to two metres tall, and they look massive when they rear up.
A single roo in the bush is a release/escaped solitary animal or a new adult male booted from the mob.
If there's a breeding population likely a mob of roos would be witnessed. Made up of one dominant male and at least a couple of females with joeys ranging in size from adolescent to the cutest little roos you've ever seen.
Around 20 years back, there were reports of a kangaroo loose in Cardiff (Wales, UK).
It turned out to be a greyhound with mange.
May I Suggest A Video On The Minhocão Or The Capelobo?
ooooo these look interesting. Bout time to cover some Brazilian cryptids.
@@lilwaterbill6244South America has reports of giant ground sloths and so does my area in the Arkansas Ozarks. There are several 4chan stories about them here that you can find by looking up the "gorp" and "big bear" here on TH-cam. At least one sounds really probable because they described a very short prehensile trunk which scientists have occasionally theorized they might have had.
I had kangaroo jerky last June and it was good
Holy smokes! I have a friend who once called me only minutes after he had left my house to tell me that he had just seen what looked like a small kangaroo hopping around near the small tree/brushline between our field & the highway that he'd turn on to go home.
And we live in Clackamas County, in rural N.W. Oregon, U.S.A.
An escaped animal strikes me as unusual for this area due to it being a rather economically depressed location, the nearest zoo being about 30-35 miles through rough & forested, creek & river-filled land that has a rather cold temperate climate, & Oregon has very strict laws about owning "exotic species".
You know, some years back one night while driving down a very rural mountain road in California, I saw what I thought then was some kind of giant rodent thing crossing the road on two legs. Now that I think about it, it looked more like a kangaroo than a weird cryptid giant rodent.
The giant one near NZ wasn't seen again after jumping into the lagoon because it was eaten by a megalodon after it swam out of sight of the sailors.
The one in NJ wasn't a kangaroo, the spotter just got over-excited and misidentified one of the native Jersey Devil population.
The one from the 70's in Chicago needs some gritty cop-show dialogue.
Senior cop: "Cuff 'im, Lou - one count trespassing, and one count of being a kangaroo." Kangaroo: "I'm not going back inside, pig!"
The next several sightings across the midwestern US through the 70's and 80's were probably that same kangaroo from Chicago, still on the run and trying to dodge the warrant out for its arrest.
Bruh what
Man you could have a book there,......The Kangaroo Kronicals
Lol, there was actually a loose kangaroo here in Florida for like 3 weeks up in Pierson FL, its owner said it escaped after a bear entered its enclosure.
i hear after some hurricanes and stuff in florida you see some weird animals that escaped from private zoos lol
@lacrosseguy108 Lol, yes, we also have some wild monkeys in Silver Springs because back in the day they wanted the glass-bottom boat tours to be more exotic, so they placed some monkeys on an island... The only problem was they didn't know they could swim, and they started breeding all over the springs and have now been spotted way down in central Florida and they have herpes so people are advised not to get to close when they're kayaking down the river.
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@@noelramirez1551 thats so crazy lol. every now and then i come across" scary stories" on youtube that basically is someone after a tropical storm in florida seeing monkeys or similar stuff lol. crazy the animals that dont belong in areas are thriving. i heard theres some hippos in south america too!
One of my favorite cryptids!
One of the wallabies in NZ were on Kawau Island in the Hauraki Gulf, an island off Auckland, introduced in the 19th Century. The Department of Conservation declared they were a feral pest and would be culled in order to save the environment. They informed the Australian government and asked if they were significant to the Ozzies, but were ignored. They gave the Ozzies around 3 years I think but around 1 month before the culling was to begin the Ozzies finally responded and said they were a type of rock wallaby extinct in Australia, the NZ Department of Conservation told the Ozzies they had 1 month to capture as many as possible before they were culled. The Ozzies said they needed more time but NZ told them they had 3 years already, the wallabies were to be culled as scheduled and eradicated from the island. Wallabies, along with deer, possums and ferrets and rabbits and a whole slew of other introduced animals are an environmental disaster to the country, causing wholesale environmental damage.
Isn't it Ausies? I mean, it's not Ozztralia... although, that might be kind of cool.
Aussies/Ossies that is an Americamism. Damned Seppos.
So you killed off a rare almost extinct animal. No thought for how special it was. How lucky you were to have it there. NO thought for the rest of the world that has now lost yet another animal from the planet. Really?
And if we find one of your extinct NZ birds on a random little island off the Australian coast?
Omg i really cant get over that comment. You should tell the world what you did.
Love the pokemon cave music in the background
The Red-necked wallabies which were taken to Europe and elsewhere came from Tasmania, so they are cold-adapted (I have a small mob which lives at my place in Tasmania, and they get very fat and furry every winter). They were popular for private collections on palatial estates. As that way of life declined, many were turned loose, especially in England.
The crazy part is know of three people personally who own kangaroos or wallaby or have owned kangaroos or wallaby (I’m in MD)- one of which would free range the wallaby on his farm every so often!
10:01 You trying so hard not to laugh while reading this part made me laugh.
The world : Strange sighting of a hopping animal reported
Australian's : Yea there's a family of 12 kangaroos living in my backyard
The giant NZ Kangaroo sounds like it's inspired by Taniwha when it comes to scale, which is pretty interesting.
There are wild introduced Wallabies in New Zealand, particularly in the Bay of Islands. Locals disparagingly call them 'Rats with Springs!' Funny thing is that they can't be exterminated because they are a subspecies now extinct in Australia! As for the giant Kangaroo sighting in New Zealand you may be referring to an early Nineteenth Century encounter where the crew of a ship claimed they saw a giant kangaroo on the hills overlooking the seashore in Fiordland. The whacky historian Gavin Menzies has claimed that it was a giant ground sloth descended from ones introduced by Chinese explorers in the Fifteenth Century but more likely the witnesses in this encounter were drunk!
Interesting, thanks for sharing.
My bet would be either too much rum or a fog magnification or both. Mountaineers sometimes see giant images in the fog caused by refraction of light.
A kangaroo eating meat isn't unheard-of, just like a deer will eat meat occasionally if its iron levels are low. Theres lots of pictures of deer with blood covered their mouths after feeding from a carcass, often another deer.
Plus there was meat eating kangaroo, i think it was ekaltadeta
When you said, "What the hell, Australia?" I had to laugh. It sums up every non-Australian's thoughts about Australian wildlife. It's weird, wonderful, and deeply unsettling. :)
Nah mate. Not at all. What's wrong with a mammal that lays eggs, has a pouch and spines? Or the other bloke who lays eggs with a poisonous spur on the hind leg and beak like a duck (If it looks like a duck, make sure it quacks like one too, or it might just sting you if it is, in fact, a platypus!)?
Or a bird that can kick 11 shades of shit out of you without blinking. Well, 2 of those, TBF, the Emu is no slouch and the cassowary, well...
Or a plant that stings and leaves you with a bad enough pain for months or years after that people have died.
Or...
BUT AT LEAST WE DON'T HAVE BEARS!
When I was in the Navy there were stories about kangaroos hiding in Balboa park.
Wallabies are in NewZealand there are 5 types but the larger ones in the south island are becoming Pests and spreading in the south island up to reports in Canterbury but around timaru and omeraru is the main place .there is a smaller species in the north island and 3 other species living on a large island .they are also wild in the uk
I believe some species of Wallabies are native in New Guinea which broke off from Australia relatively recently in geographic terms. It’s not a stretch to see escaped pets surviving if not breeding in many parts of the world. They wouldn’t be regulated like obviously dangerous animals such as the big cats or bears for example would be.
As someone from Wisconsin you hurt me with how you said the names. ❤
City folks see a deer hopping around and they think it's a kangaroo.😂😂😂😂😂😂
10:12 HELL YEAH MAN, THAT SHIT GOES HARD LMAOO
Yeah, here locally (Amarillo, Tx), two kangaroos escaped from a private owner and were hopping down I-40. Unfortunately, 1 got hit by a car; must've been an interesting insurance claim
Wild giraffes in Mexico
As an Australian I would imagine that kangaroo sighting overseas would most likely be due to the animal being lost or set free on its way to a zoo or personal buyer (not that I condone owning a kangaroo) and has survived in the wild. They're able to adapt very well to alot of different environments so I wouldn't be surprised to see them thrive in another country. I wouldn't advise it as it would basically screw over the local ecosystem.
Wallabies are a pest in the South Island of New Zealand. Seeing any north of the Rangitata river in the South Island had to be reported and around the town of Fairlie they are often seen as road kill, I’d hate to hit one on my motorcycle cos they’re quite solid.
There’s a population of them in the Koolau Mountains in Hawaii on the island of Oahu. They escaped from some rich persons estate in 1916.
They are actually a lot bigger and stronger than you’d expect. It’s not their claws that you have to worry about it’s their feet. I’ve heard stories about kangaroos breaking people’s ribs with the power of their kicks.
I remember watching a news story as a child of a guy who had been swiftly castrated by a 'roo that kicked him with its clawed back feet. He was wearing jeans & everything. Apparently that didn't matter, though.
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There was one in logan West Virginia a few months ago. It escaped from a dude who has it as a pet.
4;08 your describing a “Tree Kangaroo” native to PNG and Jarva…and north Australia
You would be surprised how many "Unit mascots" got smuggled "back home" after world wars ended, Astraya has "large cat" sightings of the offspring of Puma's and the like for the same reason.
I have not seen a kangaroo, but I know the feeling when I spotted a camel in a field in Finland. First saw it out of the corner of my eye and it didn't register for a couple of seconds before I turned my head back and had to do a double take.
Turns out the local farmer was a bit eccentiric and har just straight up bough a camel and had it living in the field below his house....
I saw one in Houston TX around 1991 or 1992. It looked like a red kangaroo.
Houston would suit them environmentally. Or Arizona.
@AndrewFishman There are also a lot of people with exotics
Forget the DaVinci Code, where’s my thriller about the phantom kangaroo phenomenon?
There are over a hundred red necked wallabies living in the wild in Germany not to mention rhea birds in northern Germany and parrots are quickly replacing pigeons in several cities.
I didn’t know about the kangaroos there. I did see millions of parrots in cologne, green with a ring neck. Rhea birds, wow. Thanks for your comment.
A population of wallaby live in kalihi Valley, Hawaii. They're protected, and it's illegal to mess with them
Excuse me but kangaroos being rando goof balls is actually standard kangaroo behaviour
Out of place animal sightings are actually strangely common. Even in Australia wild big cat populations have been spotted for decades. My guess is they're escaped populations of animals originally acquired by exotic animal collectors and circuses.
Holy fuck imagine a 30 foot anything just watching you
Two minutes in, I thought I heard "predatory macropods," not "predatory marsupials." That would be upsetting.
Similar to this, Australia have had people claim to see panthers around the blue mountains.
And the northern beaches, Sydney.
Early this year a pet kangaroo escaped and was missing for 2 days. Here in
Harrogate TN.
The 30ft would be crazy
I live in Australia. I’ve been told there are deer in forests here near the city. Equally bonkers.
I'm thinking a lot of the sightings were of actual quadruped predators that someone took a pot-shot at and scored a non kill shot, that went through the front limbs and made them wither (there's lots of examples, like the 'cryptid' pic of the wolf with the skeletonised front legs that seems to have learned to get around on its back legs alone or the black bear from a few years ago that walked everywhere due to damaged front limbs). The other Kangaroo sightings likely were actual escaped Kangaroos.
A predator like a wolf would probably survive, but probably because they are higher on the food chain. A disabled prey animal would just make a tasty meal.
Kangaroos and wallabies have thrived since the introduction of cleared land for crops and pastures, and there's no reason they wouldn't thrive in Europe or the US. In large numbers, they can damage crops, but they are far better environmentally than cattle, sheep, or goats.
Many of our birds would also thrive in other countries, emus would love Africa and the US Midwest, desert states, and Mexico. Magpies and kookaburras would also thrive in many places, and they both benefit rather than damage their environment. Cockatoos would also thrive, but their impact would be disastrous.
Wallaby are found in Papua' New Guinea too. They are called Popuan Forrest Wallaby.
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the algorithm sent me here . have you done a video on the Sydney panther?
Penrith, please.
I mean, I saw a loose Emu in Alberta, Canada. It had escaped from a farm
How about a video on the established populations of capybara in FL. They have been spotted from north FL to south central FL. I have yet to find one in the wild but it is absolutely a fact that they are here.
Ok, thats epic.
This could easily be explained by escaped imported roos. People underestimate the strength of a roo and how high they can hop
I seen a ghost kangaroo once I n port Lincoln when I was 17 at night. It was very scary and I think it changed me.
They would live there 😂 it's not rare in pt lincolin
@@ContentCrescentMoon-rh2joI didn’t watch the video but the title reminded me. I had forgotten. hey. The kangaroo was huge, like tall. And intense. Unearthly almost. Then it wasn’t there. And something was not at all right about it all. It was one of these ghost kangaroos for sure. It shook me at the time.
Is this what the video is about? I have to watch the rest of it. And yeah, pt Lincoln would have janky cryptids, i can see that
Aliens transport them in Flying Saurcers and drop them off, just for laughs. 😅
There's a small wallaby population on Oahu.
About the "devil-monkey". Babboons are all fully terrestrial, none of them living in trees. The idea of them developing a hopping gait is untenable.
The Indian State of West Bengal few kangaroos were found in near the highway no one knows how they got there
We have wild wallabies here in britain
I live in Victoria, Australia. I want to know why I see deer in my backyard... And I saw a panther once.
Those sightings were most likely pet roos' that got loose.
My friend got lost in Texas and he said he ran into one of em