Footage shows an adorable orphaned kangaroo joey being very affectionate with her handler. The little orphaned joey Indi is cared for by Chris 'Brolga' Barns at The Kangaroo Sanctuary in Alice Springs, central Australia.

Indi, who was rescued in June, can be seen grabbing hold of Mr Barns' arms and hugging him. Mr Barns is also known as 'Kangaroo Dundee' because of his work rescuing injured and orphaned kangaroos.

He was working as a tour guide in the Northern Territory and realised there was a need for a place to take care of orphaned and injured kangaroos.

The Kangaroo Dundee established the 36-hectare Kangaroo Sanctuary in Alice Springs in 2005 where he rescues orphaned kangaroos, often acting as their surrogate mother. His work has also been subject of a hit BBC documentary series 'Kangaroo Dundee', capturing the day-to day-happenings at the sanctuary.

Mr Barns was also nominated for Australian of the Year in 2014.

The kangaroo is a symbol of Australia and appears on the Australian coat of arms and on some of its currency and is used by some of Australia's well known organisations, including Qantas[6] and the Royal Australian Air Force. The kangaroo is important to both Australian culture and the national image, and consequently there are numerous popular culture references.


Wild kangaroos are shot for meat, leather hides, and to protect grazing land. Although controversial, kangaroo meat has perceived health benefits for human consumption compared with traditional meats due to the low level of fat on kangaroos. The kangaroo has always been a very important animal for Aboriginal Australians, for its meat, hide, bone, and tendon. Kangaroo hides were also sometimes used for recreation; in particular there are accounts of some tribes (Kurnai) using stuffed kangaroo scrotum as a ball for the traditional football game of marngrook. In addition, there were important Dreaming stories and ceremonies involving the kangaroo. Aherrenge is a current kangaroo dreaming site in the Northern Territory.


Unlike many of the smaller macropods, kangaroos have fared well since European settlement. European settlers cut down forests to create vast grasslands for sheep and cattle grazing, added stock watering points in arid areas, and have substantially reduced the number of dingoes.


Kangaroos are shy and retiring by nature, and in normal circumstances present no threat to humans. In 2003, Lulu, an eastern grey which had been hand-reared, saved a farmer's life by alerting family members to his location when he was injured by a falling tree branch. She received the RSPCA Australia National Animal Valour Award on 19 May 2004.

These heartbreaking photos show the moment a kangaroo begs for help in the aftermath of the devastating Australian bushfires. The marsupial suffered huge burns to its body before a teenager drenched it with water and gave it a drink.

The stricken animal is one of billions caught up in Australia’s worst bushfires, which continue to burn out of control across an area more than a third of the size of England. More than half a billion animals are predicted to have died while others are facing starvation and dehydration as the fires destroy their habitats. Many have had to be euthanised as they are unable to recover from their severe burns.

The images of the kangaroo were taken in the state of New South Wales, where a state of emergency has been declared. Fires have engulfed entire towns, leaving homes and vehicles reduced to rubble. State Rural Fire Service deputy commissioner Rob Rogers urged people close to bushfires to evacuate their homes, noting that four people have already died in their cars after leaving it too late to flee.

He said: ‘We know people have got a little bit of fire fatigue. They’ve been dealing with this for months now. ‘But we need people to stay focused. Tomorrow is not the day to drop your guard. Take it seriously. ‘If you are in those areas where we put those maps out, don’t be there.’

Temperatures this week have averaged 40C across the country and are set to soar tomorrow to 46C in some places. High temperatures are set to combine with dry lightning strikes and wind to add to the predicted fire nightmare this weekend. In the state of Victoria, Premier Daniel Andrews ordered the evacuation of 140,000 residents and tens of thousands of tourists.

The Royal Navy are currently plucking hundreds of people to safety after they fled to a beach in Mallacoota on the east coast as bushfires rapidly spread towards the town. Evacuees waiting to board the ship described smoke and embers everywhere.


At least 19 people have died in Australia’s bushfires, and around 5,000,000 hectares of land has been burned across the country. Authorities say around 1,400 homes have also been destroyed. Smoke from the wildfires has caused the air quality to plummet and in many parts of Australia turned daytime skies to near darkness. Communities over 1,000 miles away in New Zealand are also smelling smoke from the Australian bushfires and the glaciers have turned a deep brown because of the pollution.


Prime Minister Scott Morrison has come under heavy criticism for his handling of the blazes and the lack of equipment given to the mainly volunteer firefighters. His government has also repeatedly asserted that the fires are a natural disaster and not the result of climate change, exacerbated by Australia’s dependence on coal and other fossil fuels. He said he might cancel a planned trip to India after there was widespread condemnation when he jetted off on a family trip to Hawaii while the fires raged. Bushfires are burning across all the Australian states but showers next week may provide some respite, weather experts say.
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Zoo authorities in China say a kangaroo has been killed and another injured at Fuzhou Zoo in south-eastern Fujian province after visitors threw rocks into their enclosure.

Local media said the 12-year-old female kangaroo was "pelted" with rocks by visitors, with a sharp stone injuring its left foot and causing bleeding.

An autopsy reportedly showed the kangaroo probably died due to a ruptured kidney, after zookeepers treated the animal's injured foot but did not realise it was bleeding internally.

A few days later, a visitor allegedly threw part of a brick into the kangaroo enclosure, injuring a five-year-old male — but it is expected to make a full recovery.

Fuzhou Zoo's kangaroo breeder told Chinese media visitors sometimes throw stones to make the marsupials wake up or jump around.

The zoo has reportedly now applied for funding to install high-definition surveillance cameras.


It has also decided to only allow three of their kangaroos to be on show for visitors, while the body of the dead female kangaroo will be preserved and put on display.

Pics of the bricks that visitors hurled at kangaroos at the zoo in Fujian, killing one and injuring another. Zoo staff say visitors often throw objects at animals despite it being ‘prohibited’. pic.twitter.com/KwFCIcfRQ9

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Sometimes you need a hero. Like Fritz White from Goondiwindi, Australia, who helped fetch this poor kangaroo that was stuck down a trench.

White was at work when he spotted the roo lying face up in the hole, so decided to give it a hand by lifting the animal out by its arms.

This could be the most Aussie thing you see all week - a Darling Downs man rescuing a kangaroo stuck in a narrow trench.

Goondiwindi man Fritz White came across a kangaroo lying face up in a trench yesterday while at work. The footage, shot just south of Goondiwindi, shows him reaching down into the hole to grab the kangaroo's paws.

The kangaroo struggles as Mr White pulls him from the ground. The rescue only took about one minute and the kangaroo can be seen happily hopping away afterwards.

Like all marsupials, kangaroos are born extremely early; the equivalent of the seventh week of pregnancy for humans.


They travel from the birth canal as little more than an embryo by blindly propelling through the mother’s fur to the safety of the pouch, where they will spend several months developing before finally leaving to explore the world.

Young kangaroos (joeys) will sometimes jump head first into their mother’s pouch when frightened. Kangaroos have excellent hearing, and like some other animals are able to move their ears in different directions without moving the rest of their head.

Two baby animals who both lost their mothers to cars have formed an unlikely bond at a wildlife sanctuary in Victoria.

Max, a seven-month-old joey with an affectionate streak, has been photographed by his ‘mum’, shelter owner Lisa Milligan, trying to help feed a baby wombat his bottle.

‘Max is a very headstrong little joey – out of all of my joeys, he’s the one that’s always out of bag and following mum around,’ she said.

‘He’s wanting to know what I’m up to, and when it comes to feeding all the other animals in care, he just wants to help.‘Max does have a fascination with the wombat though – I guess it’s a different smell.’

While Max typically sticks to showing his affection to his human family, who took him in to their shelter in Kilmore about six weeks ago, it doesn’t seem like he’s been able to stay away from his new friend Digger. ‘Max is a big smoocher towards me and my family,’ said Lisa.

There are currently 35 animals in Lisa’s shelter, Wild About Wildlife, and most of them will be rehabilitated and released in to the wild when they are old enough.
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The joey was brought into the police station  after being found in its dead mother’s pouch. The joey has been named Cuejo after the Cue police station where Mason works

The bond between a child and a parent is an important and essential one. This applies to the animal kingdom just as much as it does to humans.

Unfortunately, tragedy can sometimes strike, leaving baby animals without a mother to care for them. But on the upside, there are hundreds of stories of these babies finding surrogates in the form of animal rescue workers and even other creature.

Constable Scott Mason had only been working in the Cue Police Station in Western Australia for a couple of weeks when an adorable baby kangaroo was brought in.

Tragically, the kangaroo had lost its mother and was now entirely on its own in the world. But Constable Mason was not going to let this baby go neglected. In fact, he and the kangaroo have formed a heartwarming bond that is sure to put a smile on any animal lover’s face.

Scroll through below for a look at this one-of-a-kind human-animal relationship, and then watch the video to see exactly what this baby thinks about his new policeman friend.
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