We were amused during a recent trip down the Newell Highway to see the Kangaroo warning signs to be obviously males of the species, a detail I had never noticed before. Certainly on the east coast the roos are girls.
At first Rip thought it was a local joke, but as we drove on, we assumed the signs might be exclusive to the Newell, and an inside joke by the construction mob.
Up till then, I had assumed that such signs were all the same. A google search showed me that this is not so, and although I did find a pic of a male roo, it seems the ones along the Newell are not as defined as this.
They hop down streets in Canberra very frequently if the number of roadkill roos is anything to go by. The damage done to a vehicle which hits one averages $3000 I believe, the big males would cause the worst but our roo warning signs show the girls . Not to mention how the poor roos feel about it.
A big buck roo hit our Kingswood many years ago...yes the Kingswood!
It dented the whole right hand side of the car and smashed the passenger window, showering glass on my baby girl, who is now 32. And hopped away! Hubby (now ex) didn't see it before, during or after the event! I saw it coming but it was too late. Can't remember the cost of the repairs but it needed a new passenger door.
There's several of those roo signs on the road out to Nyngan from Dubbo - apparently from what our friends in trangie were telling us, it is a 'local' from the region that is doing it, as when the RTA (or whoever) takes 'em down, within a couple of days another one 'sprouts up'!
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Pejay are travelling in a 2014 Holden Colorado LTZ Twin Cab Ute + 2013 Coromal Element van
Sounds like a little bit of country humour at large out there. Keeps the travellers smiling. There are roo remains all along the highways everywhere. There's so much feed around they get so fat and lazy they just look up when I blow the horn, and go right on eating. They're too fat to bound onto the road, although judging by the corpses, there are many who have made it on to the road and can't get out of the way. In most clashes with roo vs car, the roo actually hits the car, rather than the car hitting the roo. Just the tail can write off a panel. A big, burly buck can do a lot of damage, and then bound away to strike another vehicle another day. Talk about wildlife? I've seen dead echidnas, lizards and other fauna as well as ferral animals recently. Try not to run over them as the bones can do a lot of damage to the tyres.
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20ft Roma caravan - Mercedes Benz Sprinter - SA-based at the moment. Transport has no borders.
Management makes the decisions, but is not affected by the decisions it makes.
We came accross a freshly killed Wallaby somewhere in Qld, with a wedge-tail feeding on it. Since it was right in the middle of the lane I insisted Mr D stop and I got out and dragged it to the side... could at least save the eagle. It was surprisingly heavy for a smallish animal, can understand how hitting it would dent your car.
