It could just be an outdated/incorrect map, other range maps I found don't include that hole. It is definitely outlining the Simpson desert, but every publication I could find lists red kangaroos as an endemic species in that area.
Yeah I can confirm reds are plentiful all up and in between Finke, Birdsville, Oodnadatta so I would also think it's outdated. Other boundaries seems out aswell. In SA reds are further south than that, all the way to peri urban areas north of Adelaide.
We have a pet red in the family called rufus, I've just seen the binomial name for reds so that makes his name even better.
Skippy was a wallaby or more precise, skippy was multiple wallabies. And just to ruin your child hood further, any scene that was a close up of just skippy’s hands doing something were the dismembered limbs of a dead kanga.
I know right. Truth is, it was a documentary and skippy was the main beneficiary of any money made. So he kept putting Sonny in harms way to “Rescue him” and make a buck.
"We make out like Fireman Sam is a hero but he is an absolute hack. Only about 25 people live in Pontypandy and they are setting fire to something EVERY SINGLE DAY.
EDUCATE THEM SAM. GO BEYOND THE HOSE.*
https://twitter.com/fairycakes/status/1029766617209753602?t=4JPsLkRJjgPg0NpgHFpTzQ&s=19
My theory is that as the only other redhead in town Norman is Sam's secret affair child & that's why he keeps setting fires...to get the attention of his absent firefighting father.
Damn reddit, someone just spouts wrong info about the wallaby part and everyone just gives it 60 upvotes without any knowledge. Skippy was an Eastern Grey Kangaroo, played by many different ones of course.
Yeah the hands part is a bit gross but lets just think of them as taxidermy props.
> any scene that was a close up of just skippy’s hands doing something were the dismembered limbs of a dead kanga.
As kids we were told that it was a pair of wallaby paw bottle openers
https://www.gibsonsauctions.com.au/auction-lot/a-taxidermied-kangaroo-paw-bottle-opener_4514619805
Outback vs desert.
[Much of the outback is has shrub and other dryland vegitation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outback#/media/File:Mount_Conner,_August_2003.jpg), while the deserts are tpyically more traditionally deserts.
That patch looks like it's over the Simpson Desert, a particuarly barren bit of land.
It doesn't seem to match particularly well with sightings
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/7e6e134b-2bc7-43c4-b23a-6e3f420f57ad#tab_recordsView
The map combines different data sources; Gov environmental departments often have the best data (especially in remote areas), this map has NT & SA, but not WA environmental departments.
Because we’ve destroyed their natural habitat and replaced it with cattle farms, which has caused their population to explode, requiring constant culling.
That looks a little more than just west of the mountains. I have seen them around Condobolin which is probably where the eastern edges are on the map. Also saw both Eastern and Western greys.
The surveyers got about that far, decided it was too hot, and went back for a beer. Later when compiling data they realised their need for a beer resulted in an area that was never surveyed. They figure that no one will notice/care and publish the data they have.
Source - I served them the beer.
Its over the simpson desert rec reserve, mostly salt lakes. Its pretty barren. Kangaroos are there but i think the data isnt accurate enough to include
It does look like its a liit north of Lake Eyre, however, SA extends halfway from Adelaide to Darwin. I think you will find this region is in SA.
Also, even it was too far north, it would be in Queensland, not NT.
Just looked up the exact map dof the red kangaroo habitat but with state borders on it and this region is about 3/4 in SA and 1/4 split between NT and QLD.
Uluru or Ullaroo - directly translated means nill-roo or no-roos . The great rock is too steep and the kangaroos can't climb the sides so the white spot with no kangaroos is Uluru
I lived in that area for about two years and can sya there are no rood there, it's too hot and there's not enough water in that region. You will find a lot of camels and cattle however.
I have noticed that many avian range maps have a hole in this general region over the Simpson desert, from what I can tell it’s more common to have this gap shown in older books. It is a bit of a dead area though due to the lack of anything but sand there
I think that map is either wrong or outdated. I live in the extreme south-west of wa and we get kangaroos in paddocks and jumping across the road at night..
Looking at how remote it is, it might just be that no one with the authority to update the map has looked there. Or the person they sent to check died out there and didn't send back any kangaroo data.
Otherwise, I'm thinking its a kangaroo graveyard that they only go to when a king red is about to die. A great kangaroo necropolis.
Maybe just a guess, but that area roughly aligns with the Simpson Desert. Perhaps it can't sustain a Red
It could just be an outdated/incorrect map, other range maps I found don't include that hole. It is definitely outlining the Simpson desert, but every publication I could find lists red kangaroos as an endemic species in that area.
Yeah I can confirm reds are plentiful all up and in between Finke, Birdsville, Oodnadatta so I would also think it's outdated. Other boundaries seems out aswell. In SA reds are further south than that, all the way to peri urban areas north of Adelaide. We have a pet red in the family called rufus, I've just seen the binomial name for reds so that makes his name even better.
I believe "Rufus" means red/reddish, so that makes sense.
It certainly does. Lots of Australian birds called "rufous", and they all share this colour.
How do the Roos find water? I wrongly (?) assume that there’s no water in all the desert area
Morning dew is often pretty plentiful in the desert.
I've had kangaroos come to my primary school in Adelaide and I live near the hills lmao
Those would be Western Grey Kangaroos in the hills. Red Kangaroos used to live on the plains but are now only found further north
They were pretty grey, fucking hell, you're right
Yeah the Roos just have to go around. They get up to the circle and think aw fuck, long way around aye
I have been across the Simpson and have seen red kangaroos, that circle doesn’t have much water as the springs and bores are further south.
nah that's Uluru mate. they rnt allowed to climb it no more
That's where Lake Eyre is, which is basically just salt flats.
"That is the shadow place where you must never go skippy"
Skippy was a wallaby or more precise, skippy was multiple wallabies. And just to ruin your child hood further, any scene that was a close up of just skippy’s hands doing something were the dismembered limbs of a dead kanga.
I always thought skippy was a horror. No way a kids can be that unlucky and need saving so much. I reckon skippy was in on it
I know right. Truth is, it was a documentary and skippy was the main beneficiary of any money made. So he kept putting Sonny in harms way to “Rescue him” and make a buck.
"We make out like Fireman Sam is a hero but he is an absolute hack. Only about 25 people live in Pontypandy and they are setting fire to something EVERY SINGLE DAY. EDUCATE THEM SAM. GO BEYOND THE HOSE.* https://twitter.com/fairycakes/status/1029766617209753602?t=4JPsLkRJjgPg0NpgHFpTzQ&s=19
My theory is that as the only other redhead in town Norman is Sam's secret affair child & that's why he keeps setting fires...to get the attention of his absent firefighting father.
It's always that god damn annoying Elvis. Like, why isn't he locked up already? 😆
I think it's obvious he is Sam's love child and gets away with it purely because of the influence sam has in the town.
Like if you're ever in a small town with an elderly lady named Jessica Fletcher from Murder she wrote, get the fuck out of there.
Skippy and the Nuclear Bomb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcHJ4EC2nCM
Awww geeezzz skip.
Skippy's a skinhead now. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJo4EHv3p04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJo4EHv3p04)
Skippy was an eastern grey kangaroo.
Damn reddit, someone just spouts wrong info about the wallaby part and everyone just gives it 60 upvotes without any knowledge. Skippy was an Eastern Grey Kangaroo, played by many different ones of course. Yeah the hands part is a bit gross but lets just think of them as taxidermy props.
I hope they were the same taxidermied paws and not newly acquired ones
Or GenAI ones with multiple fingers/claws.
Huh? When I look it up it says multiple kangaroos, and the pictures all look like roos
Skippy was most certainly a ‘bush kangaroo’. And a friend ever true.
Looks like an eastern grey kangaroo to me.
You mean Skippy couldn't actually fly a helicopter or defuse a bomb? My life is a lie!
> any scene that was a close up of just skippy’s hands doing something were the dismembered limbs of a dead kanga. As kids we were told that it was a pair of wallaby paw bottle openers https://www.gibsonsauctions.com.au/auction-lot/a-taxidermied-kangaroo-paw-bottle-opener_4514619805
Similar to what I was told in that they were wallaby pas back scratchers.
Damn. I never thought about it. And never wanted to 😆
My son recently bought a back scratcher and wouldn't you know it, bloody excellent for holding mobile phones in landscape to watch YouTube!
What? Skippy was a Kangaroo. At least the character definitely was, maybe the actors were wallabies with some studio trickery
Damn I was going to comment elephant graveyard haha
Shadow place? OHH! so they're don't turn red! Yeah I burn easy too
Outback vs desert. [Much of the outback is has shrub and other dryland vegitation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outback#/media/File:Mount_Conner,_August_2003.jpg), while the deserts are tpyically more traditionally deserts. That patch looks like it's over the Simpson Desert, a particuarly barren bit of land.
Sounds like big red propaganda to me
It’s where there base of operation is.
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It doesn't seem to match particularly well with sightings https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/7e6e134b-2bc7-43c4-b23a-6e3f420f57ad#tab_recordsView
Yeah, everyone theorycrafting as to why they might not be are off the mark, it's just a bad map.
Love how most roos know not cross into WA in the map you provided.
The map combines different data sources; Gov environmental departments often have the best data (especially in remote areas), this map has NT & SA, but not WA environmental departments.
Because we’ve destroyed their natural habitat and replaced it with cattle farms, which has caused their population to explode, requiring constant culling.
That’s where that guy lives who punched the one who tried to drown his dog
Emu HQ
The Peoples Democratic Republic of Emukistan
No that’s in WA
Could be that surveys/data didn’t cover that area so they left it out.
Too F'kn hot, even for a Roo.
Thats because that's the Bunyips habitat and as everyone knows kangaroos are scared of Bunyips
There's no bunyips out there, You could see them coming for 3 days.
Alexander?
[Thump, thump, thumpety - wump! ](https://youtu.be/ijCOKFUsAtA?si=z1OliyKuSbc4NOBQ)
High concentration of drop bears at that place that consume kangaroo. We don’t go there.
Large drop bear population in that area. Apex predator
No water. Roos need to drink. Plenty of vegetation there, just no surface water.
Here be dragons
That's Uluru. They can't live on top of the rock, because they can't climb the rock, because they have short arms.
Lake Eyre?
What I was thinking!
It's a bit too far north to be Lake Eyre, but aligns pretty well with the Simpson Desert.
No pubs there.
That map suggests you will find reds just west of the Blue Mountains? I don't think so.
I've seen the occasional Reds east of Dubbo. I'm not sure if they were escapees from the zoo, though...
That looks a little more than just west of the mountains. I have seen them around Condobolin which is probably where the eastern edges are on the map. Also saw both Eastern and Western greys.
I've seen them near Bathurst.
Kati Thanda Lake Eyre is probably the cause of that hole.
Is further south.
That's Emu oligarch territory. We don't speak about it.
Because they're Red kangaroos and that bit isn't red.
It’s where the Blu kangaroos live
The surveyers got about that far, decided it was too hot, and went back for a beer. Later when compiling data they realised their need for a beer resulted in an area that was never surveyed. They figure that no one will notice/care and publish the data they have. Source - I served them the beer.
Can verify - I cleaned their table.
Not even the kangaroos want to go to Alice Springs
Kangaroo proof fence. But they got out. All of them.
It's just Alice Springs has too many American tourists, kangaroos are scared of Americans.
That's where Mick Taylor lives.
It's the great bald patch. Nothing can live there.
That's the part where we don't go.
The Dry Common indeed, you must know this place well.
It could be an Erg? No Kangaroo needs nothing.
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It's the real location of Pine Gap! Those big buildings outside Alice Springs are just a decoy.
No beer there
They don’t live there
We don't talk about that area. Unless you want the kangaroos to find you.
Oh my god, Karen. You can’t just ask something why it’s patch is white!
That be where the drop bears hibernate when they burrow underground
That's the elephant graveyard Simba, never go there
That's beyond our borders. You must never go there, Simba.
Its over the simpson desert rec reserve, mostly salt lakes. Its pretty barren. Kangaroos are there but i think the data isnt accurate enough to include
that looks roughly where Lake Eyre is. Lake Eyre is a huge saltwater lake/salt flat, not a very hospitable environment
Kati-Thunda lake Eyre perhaps?
I think that might be Lake Eyre, which is a mostly barren salt flat.
Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre) is in SA not NT. That's the desert.
It does look like its a liit north of Lake Eyre, however, SA extends halfway from Adelaide to Darwin. I think you will find this region is in SA. Also, even it was too far north, it would be in Queensland, not NT.
Looks like it's the desert to me, which crosses the border of SA and NT.
Just looked up the exact map dof the red kangaroo habitat but with state borders on it and this region is about 3/4 in SA and 1/4 split between NT and QLD.
Sandy desert country. No water, no grass.
That's where roofucker Ted lives. Word got out.
Drop Bear territory
That one's habitat map has some big holes too.
That’s Pine Gap, roos don’t have security clearance to be there.
That's where woop woop is. Only one roo there.
Kangaroo slaughter yard.
Rabbit fence
Lake Eyre?
Lake Eyre?
Isn't that the secret military base we don't talk about?
Elephant graveyard
Natural predators
Bush Lions
You must never go there simba
There's desert. Then there's *desert*.
Uluru or Ullaroo - directly translated means nill-roo or no-roos . The great rock is too steep and the kangaroos can't climb the sides so the white spot with no kangaroos is Uluru
because kangaroos don't swim a lot. that's Lake Eyre.
Maybe the Lake Eyre Basin was flooded that year and they only put it in roughly the right spot?
Kangaroo repellant
That's Uluru & you're not allowed to live on it, not even if you're a roo.
*channeling Peter Garret* I said ah ya ya ya the dead heart
Random Group Of Roos who don't give a Fuck about your damn map, mate.
That’s Australia’s Area 51. Near super secret Pine Gap military base.
I lived in that area for about two years and can sya there are no rood there, it's too hot and there's not enough water in that region. You will find a lot of camels and cattle however.
That’s where I live … they taste great
That’s where Chuck Norris is
First rule of kangaroo fight club…..
I have noticed that many avian range maps have a hole in this general region over the Simpson desert, from what I can tell it’s more common to have this gap shown in older books. It is a bit of a dead area though due to the lack of anything but sand there
It's a coupla blokes making their last stand.
military bases and rocket launch sites lol
I want to say Alice Springs- ?
How well do kangaroos swim?
well im gonna have to ignore the hole when there apparently isnt any kangaroos in perth now?
I think that map is either wrong or outdated. I live in the extreme south-west of wa and we get kangaroos in paddocks and jumping across the road at night..
Those are Western grey’s not the big Reds
Alien abduction hot spot
That's where the hoop sharks live.
That's where the Min Min are.
Thats where Barry lives. Probably safer if you dont ask.
USA nuclear test site
It's because roos can't survive underwater, this is a big lake spot in aus
That’s Uluru. The Roos stay off it out of respect for Aboriginal Australians.
Thats Ayres Rock
Could it be Pine Gap? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap#:~:text=Pine%20Gap%20is%20a%20joint,the%20town%20of%20Alice%20Springs.
No one home during Census?
Looking at how remote it is, it might just be that no one with the authority to update the map has looked there. Or the person they sent to check died out there and didn't send back any kangaroo data. Otherwise, I'm thinking its a kangaroo graveyard that they only go to when a king red is about to die. A great kangaroo necropolis.
We don't go to Ravenholme
Because those Roos have guns. And Emu's.
Uluru.
That’s where the kanga banga factories are.