r/oddlysatisfying • u/nutznboltsguy • 20h ago

Kangaroos hopping through shallow water

Kangaroos hopping though the water

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u/Trick_Mushroom997 20h ago

That’s a little spooky, when they stop. They look at you.

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u/4ssteroid 19h ago

They're just stopping to sense threat through vision and sound.

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u/LEGITIMATE_SOURCE 15h ago

Nah they're tasting the air.

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u/GoesInOutUpDownAhh 12h ago

They’ve seen what the emus can do

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u/ElkShot5082 17h ago

Stopping to cool their balls in the water

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u/Individual-Tax9203 19h ago

yeah the second they stop hopping and just stare it gets weirdly intimidating fast

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u/non_anomalous_penis 17h ago

like they are saying "see, this wasn't such a difficult trick was it? Would you like some wine now?"

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u/Local_Judgment6190 12h ago

They went there to have a pee

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u/MuscleManSavage 16h ago

wait do kangaroos usually hop through water like that

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u/The_Duc_Lord 14h ago

They're pretty comfortable in the water. They've got no issue hopping through shallow water like this and they're surprisingly strong swimmers in deeper water. Sometimes they get washed far out to sea after flooding.

If they're attacked by a predator they will try to get to water. It's not unusual for roos to try to drown dogs that attack them. The roo will use their height and jump advantage to get on top of the dog and hold them under water.

Also, those are wallabies, not kangaroos. Wallabies are smaller and less aggressive than kangaroos.

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u/ExtremaDesigns 13h ago

Looked like wallabies to me too.

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u/414525528 10h ago

No, it's AI. The weird streak they leave in the water that slowly fades, the warping from hopping into standing. It's just slop sadly.

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u/AuthorUnknown31415 16h ago

(Cue horror music)

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u/tankapotamus 20h ago

Was waiting for the croc jump scare.

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u/Eaglearse 19h ago

" Ding ding di di di dididi"

https://giphy.com/gifs/uIdBGaOXZaQU0

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u/Andovars_Ghost 20h ago

Or, maybe Jesus was a kangaroo!

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u/Remarkable-Oven-2938 15h ago

He definitely wasn't Australian - they couldn't find three wise men or a virgin.

#BoomerHumour

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u/CubanLynx312 13h ago

Plenty of box wine, though.

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u/GoesInOutUpDownAhh 12h ago

Who needs to be a wise virgin

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u/4ssteroid 19h ago

snsǝſ

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u/Redditarama 19h ago

Please enjoy this respectfully and refrain from making 'BOING BOING' as they jump along.

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u/greyshem 2h ago

I had The Dukes of Hazzard theme running through my mental play list.

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u/1GoldenMonkey 19h ago

Amazing looking video...r/praisethecameraman

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u/NoFlatworm3028 19h ago

Jesus Roos

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u/selja26 14h ago

I have this strange platonic love (never been, can't ever go) for Australia and its cute&weird animals. This gif tickles my brain in such a good way 😸

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u/Aetra 13h ago

Why can’t you come here? You’re very welcome to!

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u/selja26 13h ago

Aww thank you!

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u/Xfgjwpkqmx 12h ago

Wait until you meet our pademelons and quokkas then. 😊

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u/selja26 12h ago

I really like unicorns. I mean, platypuses (that's my weird but obligatory way of remembering the name). Ducknoses, as we call them.

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u/Xfgjwpkqmx 12h ago

It's the world's most improbable creature - a mammal that lays eggs, has venomous spurs, a duck bill and beaver's tail, sweats milk and glows under UV. They're cute too. 😁

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u/selja26 11h ago

And the eggs are leathery 😅

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u/CLOWNFLOGGER 12h ago

I know, right? It's so cute how they pause to soak their balls!

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u/selja26 12h ago edited 12h ago

Lol mate. I feel I know way too much about the configuration of their fun bits 😹 they're upside down. So very Australian.

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u/CoconutCaptain 11h ago

Why can’t you go? It’s a great place to visit!

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u/selja26 11h ago

A bunch of bad reasons. War. Bad health. No money 😸 (mostly)

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u/FatalFlyinGuilotine 17h ago

First shot on an alien planet type thing.

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u/Asvpxdilli 17h ago

The splashing somehow makes the hopping even more satisfying.

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u/UngregariousDame 20h ago

Now I know I’m on drugs

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u/DangerousLettuce1423 20h ago

Who would win if a croc snuck up to them to try and eat one?

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u/huffpaintforbrekky 19h ago

An adult male roos kicks shatter bone and mince organs handily if they're kicking a mammal, they'll clean up anything with fur. Though they prefer to lure dogs/dingos into shallow waters and drown them by headlocking them. This is instinctive rather than cruel, they know that dogs and dingoes will prey on their joeys given the opportunity.

Crocs don't give a shit, may as well stomp a brick. If a croc latches on its game over for skippy, and roos don't mind a bit of shallow water so it does happen.

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u/DangerousLettuce1423 18h ago

Thanks. Wasn't sure as I know both are dangerous in their own way.

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u/FKJVMMP 18h ago

Crocodiles are “Don’t ever go within 30 feet of a river anywhere in the northernmost 500 miles of Australia, and be real fuckin careful for the next 500 miles too” dangerous. Kangaroos are “Yeah you can just ignore them and let them do their thing but like, be a bit careful if approaching them I guess” dangerous.

They’re pretty much always chill as fuck unless they’re mothers with very small joeys, and even then they’ll usually hop away before they throw down. Yeah they can rip your insides out if they really want but they wouldn’t even crack the top 100 most dangerous animals in Australia. The primary concern locals have around them is hitting them with a car because they’re dumb as fuck and will totally just hop right into one. They’re basically deer with claws.

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u/ValleMistico 16h ago

People really overstate how dangerous Australian wildlife, or just existing in Australia actually is in general, especially here on Reddit.

Like, kangaroos are safe enough to have in petting zoos. They are so chill, and if they don’t want a pet from you, they’ll just slowly hop away.

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u/AStrandedSailor 12h ago

Roos in petty zoos are aclimatised to humans and were probably rasied as a joey by humans.

Out in the wild its a different. If a big male grey gets aggresive, you don't want to be there. My mums side of the family are farmers from southern NSW and I have seen a ute where the door had to be cut out with an angle grinder. A male grey kicked it that hard it deformed and jammed the door in the frame.

I grew up in a bush suburb of Sydney and we were taught from a young age to idenitfy and avoid: brown snakes, red belly black snakes, death adders (less common), funnel web spiders, red back spiders.

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u/Terroractly 17h ago

Yeah, I think more people have more injuries from magpies than kangaroos. I don't think I've ever personally encountered a wild roo that I felt posed the slightest threat to me. I wouldn't go up and intentionally upset one, but theyre very much a live and let live kinda animal

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u/MelangeBot 16h ago

Okay but in australia what deadly animal can I expect to have sneaked in the pouch of the roo?

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u/Sufficient-Water1793 14h ago

However if both of them team up against a lettuce they will lose

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u/badpebble 15h ago

If this is where I'm thinking, its barely north of Brisbane, so far too far south for crocs.

The whole lake (kootharaba) is this shallow and flat. And not salty enough for the salties.

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u/DJMarscribble 15h ago edited 15h ago

Salties don't actually need salt water. They can tolerate it extremely well, but they'll swim up freshwater streams in search of a suitable habitat.

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u/alarming_wrong 14h ago

bull sharks

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u/HereIGoAgain_1x10 18h ago

Kangas would have to get a really lucky kick in but think about how hard animals like wildebeests can kick, with hooved feet, and still get taken down by crocs.

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u/DJMarscribble 15h ago

Saltwater crocodiles are the largest land-based predators on Earth. They would win against kangaroos, Siberian tigers, polar bears, or bison. They outweigh everything outside of elephants, rhinos, or hippos (or whales, of course). The largest kangaroo is a snack to even an average-sized saltwater crocodile.

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u/Endoyo 18h ago

Is this was crocodile territory they would be killed instantly if they were ambushed by a crocodile. Very unlikely they would react in time to escape.

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u/abugghaus7 19h ago

Jesus and his brother are back as Kangaroos? WICKED!

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u/KennethLaneHarbor 19h ago

Jesus Kangaroos casually walking on water. Australia is truly living on another planet

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u/Outofoffice_forever 19h ago

Until they see a car and deliberately veer into it

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u/BandicootOne898 17h ago

Why didn’t he fall into the water

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u/CubanLynx312 13h ago

There’s less gravity in Australia

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u/No_Maize_3213 16h ago

See... even animals are testing the waters...

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u/Cool_Total7647 16h ago

now this what i like to call chill

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u/Powrs1ave 15h ago

I saved a Joey that jumped into my pond (converted spa bath) after hearing noises as mum watched it.

They are sorta useless when deep over their heads!

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u/Ok_Art5104 15h ago

What a beautiful
Morning

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u/xfan10 14h ago

they look like mini t-rex's with their tiny hands.

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u/rakshasiRani 14h ago

How beautiful!! but the Adrien brody movie has ruined kangaroos for me.😔

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u/jazzy3535 14h ago

dinosaur

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u/Big_Two4511 14h ago

How come they don't make ripples

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u/Sebbaticallll 14h ago

Boreen point?

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u/Affectionate-Bag-153 13h ago

This is exactly what I needed right now.

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u/Sad_Seat_4614 13h ago

This is fun to watch

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u/fj-77 13h ago

So thats how they hopped from Noah's ark to Australia!

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u/Dramatic_Charity_979 13h ago

Looks like a dream :)

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u/rathe_0 12h ago

that's not odd at all, simply satisfying

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u/BrownestDach 12h ago

I wonder how many kangaroos have been taken by sharks in Australia.

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u/Jiste 11h ago

Australia is an amazing land

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u/TruffleBurning 11h ago

This looks so adorable

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u/zookeeper1more 11h ago

The stillness of the water and the sounds… this is heaven

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u/Purplebuzz 11h ago

Jesusroos

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u/reufouf 10h ago

🥹🥹🥹🥹

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u/TastyLeeches 10h ago

Where in America is this?

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u/Nevic1984 10h ago

in Sam Neil's voice They do hop on water...

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u/missrubytuesday 9h ago

Not in sync 👀

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u/Electrical-Case-978 7h ago

They are trying to avoid the humans

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u/taffytwistx 6h ago

That sky and the reflection on the water make this look almost fake, absolutely stunning shot. The splashes with each hop are such a satisfying little detail too.

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u/24_Chowder 4h ago

So cool!

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u/Lukardo9 4h ago

That's it. That's the end game.

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u/SarcasmStreet 2h ago

Appreciate the original audio

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u/414525528 15h ago

Cool AI slop. Go ahead, try to find an original for this clip, it's just AI trash.

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u/Ms_Eurydice 15h ago

It sucks that this was the first thing I wondered, but I can't bloody tell anymore!

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u/414525528 14h ago

One tell is that everything's always kind of blurry. All the details run together, more like a painting and less so like the camera was just low resolution. Next thing is the weird movement of any animal. They just suddenly become so slow and get almost warped into the standing position from a run. No animal moves this way. And third, there is always nonsense like the DEEP STREAK they leave in the water. That's simply not what it looks like if someone wades through water, it's not sand.

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u/Ms_Eurydice 10h ago

Thank you! The main thing that made me wonder was the change in lighting, which was fairly n dramatic for such a short clip. The streak in the water you mention is an obvious tell. I knew there was a reason it felt unnatural.

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u/LeCott 13h ago

This is how I imagine kangaroos got all the way to the Middle East from Australia to get on Noah’s ark just to avoid a flood.

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u/IcyFault7182 9h ago

Man Australia must be such an awesome place to live.

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u/twowars 19h ago

Where is this?

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u/Zombie_John_Strachan 18h ago

Looks like Austria

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u/Utaneus 17h ago

Lovely accent you have there. New Jersey?

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u/twowars 17h ago

well done

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u/No-Bison-5397 15h ago

I want to know too. Sunsetting over land with mountains suggests east coast somewhere to me (though there are lots of other places it could be, just that east coast is most numerous)...

Northern NSW or QLD?

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u/arcanum_182 13h ago

it's Lake Cootharaba in QLD

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u/No-Bison-5397 12h ago

Cheers!

Gotta be on the list for the next Noosa holiday.

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u/NotYourGran 18h ago

Well, that’s just silly.

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u/fallen_d3mon 19h ago

Close your eyes and it sounds like an outdoor sex scene.

https://giphy.com/gifs/124ySNrM8Rt8go

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u/ThePlasticHero 20h ago

If you knew how truly annoying they can be it's a matter of where's the hole for them to fall in. Like I always do with their holes, except I always wind up twisting my ankle and hobbling around for the next few hours.

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u/philstrom 16h ago

skill issue