Kangaroos ‘scared by own noise’
`Australian farmers could be about to get an unusual new weapon to protect their crops from rampaging kangaroos.
Researchers in Melbourne have found that these voracious marsupials can be scared off by the thumping sound of their own large feet on the ground.
[..] a recording of a ‘roo thumping its foot appears to have been quite a breakthrough. This is the noise these macropods make when they sense danger before taking flight.
Using the animal’s own alarm system could be what irate farmers have been looking for. They often complain that kangaroo numbers have reached plague-like proportions. Several million are shot dead every year as part of an official cull.’
