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  • 10 months ago
Surplus kangaroos at the Bordertown Wildlife Park will be sold to prevent overcrowding and the spread of disease. About 12 of the animals, including some rare white kangaroos, will be desexed and sold. A tourism company in Victoria will look after the relocated kangaroos.

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00:01They're the stuff of Aussie legend, but they're also very real.
00:05Any tourists that come to Australia, they all want to see a kangaroo.
00:09And to have the uniqueness of a white kangaroo is even more special.
00:13Approximately 35 white and grey kangaroos call the Border Town Wildlife Park home,
00:18alongside a variety of birds.
00:20A buck was brought here in 1980.
00:23It is just a genetic strain of the western grey kangaroo, so it's not albino.
00:29Border Town is one of the few locations where white kangaroos are bred in captivity.
00:34You do only need to have one parent with this genetic strain for you to have joeys that come out white.
00:39But the mob has grown too big for this enclosure, where they roam freely.
00:43There's about 11 or 12 adult white kangaroos here.
00:47I think they're looking to remove around that 12 too, with whites and the western greys.
00:52Some of these kangaroos will be desaxxed and sold to other wildlife parks around the country
00:56who are interested in the tourist attraction.
00:58The extra room after the sale will allow the park to continue its natural breeding program.
01:03We'll still have the western greys, we'll still have the whites,
01:05we've still got the peacocks, we've still got the wallabies.
01:08So there's a lot of different things here to have a look at.
01:10A rare sight that has some visitors jumping for joy.
01:14I'd like to go to the park to go, and we won't be getting built in the village.
01:19So, I'm not gonna go out and reach out the desert.
01:22I'm gonna go out and reach out.
01:24I'm gonna go out and reach out.
01:25I'm gonna reach out and reach out to the rivers and you see through the water.

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