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Hey, smarty pants, today I'm waiting near

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the roadway for my old friend and

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animal expert Robert Maroon to pick me

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up and take me to meet one

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of nature's most unusual creatures. Oh

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look, here comes his Jeep now. Oh

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yeah you go, mate. Quick, jump in.

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Alrighty. Whoa,

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what's the hurry Maroon? They're after

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me. Who is it this time? The

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mob. Uh, did you

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say the mob? As in

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the mafia? As in the bad

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guys in like 1000 action

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movies? Are we being chased by violent

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criminals? I'm not

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sure they're criminals but they can

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get violent and I do know

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they've got very deep pockets. Deep

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pockets? And they've got a lot of cash? Let

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me guess, you borrowed money from the wrong

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people. Hang on, tight turn.

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Whoa, what kind of trouble did you

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get yourself into Maroon? How the questions to lie

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to me. If you want to be helpful, hang

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on to these. What's

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in this bag? Money? It feels

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soft and light. Look for yourself.

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Why it's grass. Long

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blades of grass and some

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leaves. Oh no, they're on

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our tail. Can't this jeep go

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any faster? I've been having some

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engine problems so she won't go faster than

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55 kilometres an hour or

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as you say 35 miles per hour. Not

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speedy enough for the freeway. But

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around as fast as this mob can go. Uh

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oh, I see them ahead of

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us now. Where? Behind

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those kangaroos? What? It is

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kangaroos mate. What? It

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is kangaroos mate. Uh,

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I thought you said the mob was chasing us.

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It's what we call a group of... into

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a ball and wait for help. Help?

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Who's gonna find us here in the Australian Outback?

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I've called a kangaroo expert. She's

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in my emergency contacts. You

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have a kangaroo expert in your

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emergency contacts? Sure. We've

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got 50 million roos in Australia, more

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than double the number of people. It's

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good to know an expert. You

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boys wanna get outta here? You talk to me.

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Hi, Rosie. Glad you could make it.

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Why are you two lying in the dirt?

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Huh? Hey, where'd all the

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kangaroos go? They must've skidded when I

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pulled up. And they took my

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carrots. At least I have a big bag

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of chips. Hey,

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those are my chips. You

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weren't eating them. Because I was being

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chased by a mob of kangaroos. Blimey

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maroon. Don't tell me you were

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trying to take a selfie with a wild roo.

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I'm not proud of it. There's a

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reason those kangaroos attacked. There's

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something in carrots that drives them

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wild. Smarty

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Pants, could you guess what that is?

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Is it A, potassium, B,

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fiber, C, beta carotene, or

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D, sugar? Yeah,

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you may not think of carrots as having sugar, but

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they do. And while carrots

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are healthy for humans, for kangaroos,

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it's like eating candy. Oh,

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you wouldn't happen to have a chocolate bar, would

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you? Just like maroon here,

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kangaroos are addicted to sweet stuff.

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Unfortunately, that makes them more aggressive.

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A kangaroo might attack a person if

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it feels threatened or if

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it feels the person is keeping yummy food

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away from them. Like carrots? Like

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carrots. Hop in. I'll

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show you what kangaroos normally eat. Once

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we reach the

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plains, you'll probably see some wild

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ones eating. Oh, there's some. See them? Yeah,

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but those look different from the

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kangaroos we just saw. What kind are

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these? Those are called Western

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Grey Kangaroos. Oh, because they're grey? You

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go out, mate. When we

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talk about roos, we usually mean big ones.

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The Eastern and Western Grey Kangaroos. The

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Eastern and Western Grey Kangaroos,

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the Antelopeine Kangaroo, also known

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as the Antelopeine Wallaby, and

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the biggest rule of all, the Red Kangaroo.

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Red roos can stand two metres or six

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and a half feet. Whoa. That's

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taller than most people. Whoa. While

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those four are the most recognisable kangaroos,

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there's actually over 60 species in the roo

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family, including the smallest one, called

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the Musky Red Kangaroo. It's

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about the size of a large guinea pig. Aww.

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Why smaller than these grey roos out

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here in the field? Oh,

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you see what they're eating? Smarty

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Pants, can you guess what the kangaroos are munching on? Think

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back to something that happened earlier. That's

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right. They're eating grass. Kangaroos

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graze, just like cows. And

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just like cows, they regurgitate

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their food. Regurgitate? You

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mean... Yep. First they swallow their food, then they

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throw it back up so they can chew it a second time

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before swallowing it again and

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digesting it. Besides

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grass, roos have been known to eat leaves, flowers,

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moss, ferns and insects,

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but not carrots. Why?

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I get it. Carrots can actually

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be harmful to kangaroos, and they're young.

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Speaking of young, we've seen how kangaroos

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keep the kangaroos.