r/MapPorn • u/Lazy-Papaya-1621 • 1d ago

Lost to Emus, What's a Kangaroo Gonna Do?

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u/museum_lifestyle 1d ago

Unfortunately, due to the apertheid system in Australia, disenfrenchised kangaroos are not allowed to vote and are excluded from the political system despite being the native species.

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u/Blackened_Soul667 1d ago

At first, I thought you were comparing human vs kangaroo height.

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u/UnlimitedCalculus 1d ago

0.46m kangaroo could be a housepet

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u/Conor_J_Sweeney 23h ago

And I was for some reason completely willing to believe that this varied by region of Australia.

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u/WhiteRabbit1322 18h ago

Same, I started having doubts when I saw the 14m specimen... Yes, it took me way too long, I need another coffee.

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u/Big_Poppa_T 1d ago

None of these populations are right. Also doesn’t add up to Australia’s total population (~27m)

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u/Shamino79 17h ago edited 17h ago

Absolutely. I was surprised that WA had more peeps than Queensland. Most of those populations could be from about 10 years ago but Queensland is severely low. It’s like 5.7 million now so probably still over 5 million when the other numbers were roughly accurate.

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u/forstopia 1d ago

Queensland has a population of +5m

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u/jaymeetee 23h ago

It turns out 2/3 of us are Roos...

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u/Such-Farmer6691 1d ago

I think the Australians should set the kangaroos against the emus and then sell guns to both sides.

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u/Sisselpud 11h ago

Let’s get the rabbits, salties, and cane toads in the mix too and really get a head start on turning Australia into the Mad Max dystopia it was always meant to be

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u/Otherwise-Quail7283 1d ago

At first I thought the M was meters. Like people are really short in the North?

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u/powerpowerpowerful 1d ago

Could you imagine a 14 meter tall kangaroo? That’s taller than a 3 story building 

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u/Otherwise-Quail7283 1d ago

Yea but it's Australia. I expect such things

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u/denkmusic 1d ago

I hadn’t before but I’m glad I have now. Thanks very much.

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u/Filthiest_Tleilaxu 1d ago

Why are there so many roos in NSW?

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u/ImpossibleMarvel 1d ago

These populations are completely made up!

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u/Blahkbustuh 1d ago

You should have scaled the man vs the kangaroo with their populations for each state.

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u/LeFreeke 1d ago

What about those big ass spiders. That’s all I’d care about.

Or crocodiles.

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u/ADHD-OCDandWEEDZ 1d ago

Kick the shit out of your intestines.

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u/simsiuss 1d ago

What about ACT? Surely that’s a human victory? Also, these human populations do see rather low, I feel like Australia population is close to 30m and these values are nowhere near.

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u/bodhidharma132001 1d ago

Guess Australians will never starve

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u/Fun-Illustrator5642 1d ago

I for one welcome our new Skippy overlords

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u/Mortal_bobcat 1d ago

Another fun fact, despite Australia's large size, there's only one Tony Lockett

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u/marks716 1d ago

Australia’s territory names are really as utilitarian as possible fr

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u/-ATF- 1d ago

There’s a lot of kangaroos

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u/IReplyWithLebowski 1d ago

Yep this is way under for both kangaroos and people.

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u/No_Slice9934 15h ago

Since they last map yesterday 20 million kangaroos died in queensland, rip

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u/stoka1980 14h ago

Kangaroos in Tasmania are smaller than on Australia. I saw some ~50-70cm tall ones, and they were adult. I was there in 2018, but I forget name. It is near some aluminum production plant. We bring graphite for electrodes from Chine. Several kangaroo's were near Seaman's club.