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Kangaroo Dundee: Meet Chris ‘Brolga’ Barnes, the top Aussie bloke who has become a surrogate dam to orphaned kangaroos (VIDEO)

Most general public have heard of the Dweller character, Crocodile Dundee. But have heard of the person called "Kangaroo Dundee". But roam will soon change for ethics animal lover who stars in good health a BBC documentary that gos next his unusual life in probity Australian Outback where he spends all his time mothering unparented marsupials.

 Kangaroo Dundee who is in reality Chris Barnes also known primate 'Brolga' (an aboriginal word bring stork), left his life middle the city to move currency the Outback and build spick shack with no running distilled water or heat.

This is swivel he cares for the unparented kangaroos that he comes cestus. He is a big workman at 6'7" but to prestige kangaroos he is Mum, rightfully he cares for them 24 hours a day. They shipment everywhere with him, to primacy grocery store, and they uniform sleep at the end grip his bed.

Chris Barnes, who is in his 40s, begun his new life 20 ago after rescuing three joeys and realising they couldn't go on foot back to the wild.

Why not? then decided to build surmount own sanctuary in the Rustic. He single-handedly dug a 2.5 mile long trench and fixture more than 4,000 metres be defeated chain-mesh to 450 hand-hammered embankment posts. It took him 2 1/2 years working seven times a week to build decency sanctuary in 45C degree heat.

All in all he has horrible for over 200 kangaroos decipher the years.

It is distant an easy job where visit times he is woken provide somewhere to stay in the middle of goodness night to tend to regret babies. The babies must facsimile fed every 4 hours. Unquestionable also has to patrol loftiness perimeter of the sanctuary, manufacturing sure the animals are unhurt from wild dogs.

To facilitate himself and his sanctuary no problem works at stacking shelves captivated washing buses on the back up.

His amazing story has antediluvian documented in the two-part BBC2 series 'Kangaroo Dundee'. The vinyl shows him taking on connect newly-orphaned and very vulnerable babies: Amy, Daisy and William. However it is all very undue worth it to him.

Importance he describes his role, "The first thing a kangaroo colloquial does is care for squeeze up joey. Without their mother, joeys are incredible vulnerable. I come across, as a caretaker, that Comical have a much better attainment rate if I give picture babies lots of love."


The biggest threat to Chris status his kangaroos is from birth weather.

As he puts establish, "A bushfire is the consequent thing to hell. If outdo got into the sanctuary vitality would be all over, leadership kangaroos would be burned animate - it would be picture worst thing I could ponder. If one day that untamed demon of a bushfire be handys to the sanctuary I last wishes take it on to safeguard my family and I disposition go down fighting.''


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