{"id":4400,"date":"2015-07-23T19:22:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T09:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=4400"},"modified":"2015-07-23T19:22:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T09:22:06","slug":"kangaroo-karnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=4400","title":{"rendered":"Kangaroo Karnage"},"content":{"rendered":"

CARNAGE, CARNAGE, CARNAGE. In an earlier post <\/a>The Doc commented \u201cThe first 5 kilometres out of Barcaldine was like a kangaroo slaughter house.\u201d Barcaldine (pronounced Bar-cool-den) is on the way to Longreach, the birthplace of QANTAS in Outback Queensland.<\/p>\n

The Doc made the return trip yesterday. Kangaroo and wallaby carcasses were littered everywhere: grey ones, red ones, young ones, old ones, small ones, big ones, all dead. To give some idea of the scale of the carnage, the road is 110km long, there is a carcass every 5 meters, giving a total of over 22,000 carcasses. If someone said The Doc was wrong, the real figure is 50,000 carcasses The Doc would not argue the point.<\/p>\n

One grey nomad commented over the UHF radio: \u201cI have never seen so many dead roos\u201d. Even the truck drivers were discussing the body count.<\/p>\n

The area is gripped by a severe drought drawing the roos to the roadside and their deaths. The least<\/strong> number of carcasses is now on that first 5 kilometres out of Barcaldine!<\/p>\n

\"GRR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CARNAGE, CARNAGE, CARNAGE. In an earlier post The Doc commented \u201cThe first 5 kilometres out of Barcaldine was like a kangaroo slaughter house.\u201d Barcaldine (pronounced Bar-cool-den) is on the way to Longreach, the birthplace of QANTAS in Outback Queensland. The Doc made the return trip yesterday. Kangaroo and wallaby carcasses were littered everywhere: grey ones, … Continue reading Kangaroo Karnage<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-4400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-qld","tag-roadkill"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42vG0-18Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4402,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions\/4402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}