Mobile phones can be crucial during emergencies, but it was only because of a black spot that this joey was able to see daylight again, after getting stuck in an old underground water tank.
Mobile phones can be crucial during emergencies, but it was only because his own phone had temporarily stopped working that Martin Greenwood discovered what he described as the "luckiest kangaroo in the world".
"I was sitting there talking away [and] I looked over into the distance and I saw sort of like an old mullock heap — just clay and rocks, and so forth, and I thought, 'no-one digs a hole here'.His curiosity piqued, he decided to take a closer look, and drove over. He has seen several others around the property, and said they would need to be fenced off because they acted as traps for unsuspecting animals.Lined with concrete and about three metres deep, this particular tank left no possible way out.
"It just looked like a bush in the ground. You'd have no idea there was a well underneath," Mr Karran said. "This poor little girl, she was absolutely covered in all the filth from down there — she was cold and wet and as I turned my back to her she came and grabbed my leg."You could just tell she wanted to be rescued."Mr Karran carefully grabbed her by the tail, picked her up and lifted himself and the young roo out of the subterranean depths back into the world above.
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