{"id":19827,"date":"2016-01-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/tragic-scene-as-male-kangaroo-and-joey-comfort-dying-mum\/"},"modified":"2016-01-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T00:00:00","slug":"tragic-scene-as-male-kangaroo-and-joey-comfort-dying-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/tragic-scene-as-male-kangaroo-and-joey-comfort-dying-mum\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic scene as male kangaroo and joey comfort dying mum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Image | Evan Switzer<\/h6>\n<h3>Photos of a male kangaroo comforting his female companion in her last moments as her joey stands by her side are going viral.<\/h3>\n<p>The tragic series of images were photographed by Evan Switzer in River Heads, QLD.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"642\" width=\"962\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/roo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Image | Evan Switzer<\/h6>\n<p>\u201cI saw the male pick up the female,\u201d Mr Switzer told Daily Mail Australia, \u201che looked like he was just trying to get her up and see what was wrong with her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe would lift her up and she wouldn&#8217;t stand she&#8217;d just fall to the ground, he&#8217;d nudge her, stand besides her&#8230; it was a pretty special thing, he was just mourning the loss of his mate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"642\" width=\"962\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/roo3_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Image | Evan Switzer<\/h6>\n<p>In one of the photos, the joey can bee seen reaching out to touch its dying mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe young one looked kind of confused, it would stand by the mother and then hop off and chew some grass, and then come right back again,\u201d Mr Switzer said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"642\" width=\"962\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/roo4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Image | Evan Switzer<\/h6>\n<p>\u201cThe male would chase the other kangaroos that came around away \u2013 he was sort of protective over the female.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve travelled around a bit and you see a lot of dead roos on the side of the road \u2013 but I&#8217;ve never seen anything like that before,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/essendon-guilty-verdict-a-stitch-up-says-graham-cornes\">CORNESY SAYS BOMBER BAN IS A \u201cSTITCH UP\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/lifestyle\/man-who-died-alone-in-nursing-home-left-behind-message-for-us-all\">HE DIED ALONE IN A NURSING HOME, BUT LEFT BEHIND AN AMAZING MESSAGE FOR US ALL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image | Evan Switzer Photos of a male kangaroo comforting his female companion in her last moments as her joey stands by her side are going viral. The tragic series of images were photographed by Evan Switzer in River Heads, QLD. Image | Evan Switzer \u201cI saw the male pick up the female,\u201d Mr Switzer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-19827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tragic scene as male kangaroo and joey comfort dying mum - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/tragic-scene-as-male-kangaroo-and-joey-comfort-dying-mum\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tragic scene as male kangaroo and joey comfort dying mum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Image | Evan Switzer Photos of a male kangaroo comforting his female companion in her last moments as her joey stands by her side are going viral. 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