28.06.2017
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A Quest to Save Baby Kangaroos on a Lonely Australian Highway
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/world/australia/australia-kangaroos-joeys-stuart-highway.html?emc=eta1
COOBER PEDY, Australia A few weeks ago, Deb Williams saw another
dead kangaroo lying in the middle of the Stuart Highway, a strip of road almost
2,000 miles long that runs north-south through Australias center.
So she did what she normally does. She slowed her car down from 70 miles an hour
and pulled over to drag the lifeless animal off the road. As a nurse, Ms. Williams,
50, has seen firsthand the effects that hitting kangaroos has on
drivers. From the smell and site of the carcass, she estimated it had been there
for a few days, all life long gone. Or so she thought.
“When I looked at the kangaroo, I saw movement and I thought, ‘Youve got to be
kidding me, there cannot be a joey in there,’” Ms. Williams recalled, referring
to a baby kangaroo. Once the body was off the road, she peeked into the pouch to
find the baby, covered in its mothers blood, but almost unscathed and very much
alive.
http://OzReport.com/1498672363
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