A kangaroo kills its owner in the first incident of its kind since 1936

A seventy-year-old man died in Australia after being attacked by a kangaroo he had raised since he was a baby, at his home in Redmond, Western Australia, and a relative of the 77-year-old man rushed to his aid while he was seriously injured, after which paramedics arrived at the scene and tried to treat the man. Although the aggressive marsupial repelled them from its victim, as stated later.

As a result, the police were called to the scene who shot the kangaroo, but the injured man was killed at the scene.

A police spokesman said, according to the Mirror newspaper, that the victim was believed to have been attacked by a kangaroo earlier in the day.

Media data said a three-year-old girl had serious head injuries after a kangaroo attack in New South Wales in March, but fatal attacks remain extremely rare, and the man's death on Monday was the first since 1936.

These creatures can be up to 8 feet (over 2 meters) long and weigh up to 26-66 kilograms, depending on their breed, however, their strong hind legs and powerful claws mean they are armed with lethal weapons when feeling threatened.

Professor Graeme Coulson, an expert in kangaroo behavior, told ABC: "Certainly if they're trapped or in some sort of confinement, kangaroos can be very dangerous. The problem with kangaroos and humans is that we're both upright animals, we stand on our feet and stand upright like we do. We're doing a challenge to the male kangaroo."

However, marsupials are far from being Australia's most dangerous predator, famous for their huge crocodiles, venomous snakes and huge spiders.

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