More and more dangerous animals are roaming around in Bavaria. And there the wolf, which is currently even occupying the courts, is apparently the smaller problem. A sighting of an exotic animal recently at Mickhausen makes you sit up and take notice.
The wild animal plague in Bavaria never ends. First the wolf, which you either have to shoot or absolutely not and now you are not allowed to. And now an exotic creature, tried and tested in hand-to-hand combat, has also been sighted. This one looks cute but can box, kick and even wrestle. No joke – you should stay away from kangaroos.
At Mickhausen, southwest of Augsburg, walkers did just that and pulled out the camera. Even the two dogs, a husky and a dachshund – according to the owner not children of sadness – stopped dead in their tracks. “Significantly larger than the wallabies in the zoo,” said the photographer. The Bennet kangaroos, which feed primarily on grass, leaves and roots, can reach a height of up to one meter.
And there are more: All of Bavaria – yes, really all of Bavaria – is flooded. There were sightings in Kelheim, Freising and Wildenberg last year. Most of the time, you don’t know where the animals come from. The Mickhausen kangaroo is also not considered missing. Even if you catch the oversized rabbits (such an older Brockhaus edition), they rarely return to their owners. They don’t have to be registered, and if the owners don’t even notice that they are missing one, only one thing can be concluded from this: the number of unreported kangaroos in Germany could be enormous, hundreds if not thousands of animals are planning to escape and the Bavarian forests and meadows to take over.
Although the hoppers, also known as red-necked wallabies, are struggling with the long and cold winter, climate change is entirely in their interest. If you don’t want kangaroos to displace native fauna and paralyze traffic by recklessly hopping around, then the government must act urgently. The launch is without alternative. Just because the wolf is allowed to live does not apply to imported, foreign animals. After that, it is just as urgent to talk about the supposedly native fauna: cows kill almost ten people a year in Germany alone. They too are imported: only 10,000 years ago they were mainly found in Anatolia and not here in Bavaria.