Noting we are entering the annual protest cycle, some real world numbers should be applied from last year regarding the kangaroo population in the local reserves.

These figures are derived from scientific papers, including from anti-cull sites, so I have approached the modelling from an agnostic perspective.

Females Eastern Greys can live up to 18 yrs in the wild. They are reproductive from 2 yrs of age and they can carry 3 young at different stages of development (quiescent blastocyst, pink, furred) with two in the pouch at any one time.

Using a progressive model over a 9 yr cycle, one female will be responsible for up to 62 genetically linked progeny. The sex difference runs at 1 male to 2 female. There are no natural predators.

In a population of 150 in Year 1 (much than we see in the Reserves but easy to split into 50 male and 100 female), the 9 yr cycle would result in an average of 6200 head.

Again, there is no natural predators. Males are forced out of the mob at age 2 to 4. They have to find space or cross roads. Adaptive evolution would model a refusal to do the road crossing noting the high mortality. Alpha males are forced out at the end of their useful breeding age due to sexual competition.

So there is the problem the Government has to deal with.

This morning a watched a starving male roo digging for roots as the grass has been over-grazed. I saw a mob deep in the suburbs looking for grass, and I saw the destructive digging that will spread only weeds and cause erosion gullies in the spring rains.

So your playground insults mean nothing as I watch the animals you pretend to protect, suffer.

Good luck with this year’s “campaign”!

More Kangaroo slaughter industry propaganda. Are you a shooter or a farmer Percy? Or do you sell our wildlife for pet food?

Wrong. There is a kangaroo slaughter industry which spews out endless lies and pro slaughter propaganda. That’s not in question. Your role, as someone who continues to support the heinous slaughter of Australia’s wildlife, is in question. Your replies, like your information, are disingenuous at best.

Percy seems to think we’re in Scotland. Dear Percy, welcome to Australia. Your ‘data’ about Kangaroo population and reproduction has previously been debunked as the slaughter industry propaganda it is. Your attempts to spread misinformation with pseudo science are pathetic and incredibly disingenuous. Let us remind you Percy, Kangaroos have been in Australia in their modern form for over 3 million years. You now think they are a source of cash and make up lies about their ‘conservation’.

The most fascinating part about Percy, other than his completely irrelevant comparisons of Australian wildlife to introduced species, is his consistent defensive presence. Percy does not like that Australians are becoming more and more aware of the horror that is commercial Kangaroo slaughter.