A hilarious – yet whole terrifying – new video recording shows the moment a paraglider come face to face with a human - sized , clenched fist - throwing kangaroo .
Jonathan Bishop had been paragliding across the southeastern part of the country for about two hours when he begin derive at theOrroral Valleytracking post , a NASA station that corroborate Earth - orbiting satellites 50 kilometers ( 31 miles ) south of Canberra .
Recording his landing with a helmet Cam River , Bishop says the landing place pad was the last cleared valley where he could safely bring .
“ I was boil down on the landing place and did n’t notice the kangaroo until after I land , ” he wrote in a description companion theYouTube TV .
That ’s when the to a fault fast-growing Kangaroo bee - lines directly for the paraglider with what we can only assume is absolute fury in his centre . The marsupial then square up with a height that would makeMike Tysonproud and jab , jab , power soak Bishop .
“ As it ran towards me I think it was being friendly so I say ' What ’s up , Skip ? ' It then attacked me twice before hopping away , ” he said , adding that he then packed up his paraglider and had to take the air several kilometers to get headphone reception and call a friend to pick him up .
The now - viral video has since been view more than 1 million times .
A bombastic manly kangaroo canreachheights as tall as 2 meters ( 6.5 foot ) and weigh up to 90 kilograms ( 200 pound ) . Though an attack by one may seem risible at first , it can apace sprain dangerous . Thefour speciesof kangaroos are all endemic to Australia , and their population double that of humans with an estimated 50 million across the continent .
The iconic national symbol is mostly now consider a plague , from damage crop and menace the agrarian industry to their involvement in more than 80 percent of fomite - animal collisions every year , National Geographicreports . Human increment and development retain to encroach on wild environments , butt people and wildlife against each other and create , in some caseful , potentially life - threatening place .
Last free fall , an Australian brace feed baseless kangaroo on their dimension was attacked by a kangaroo only to be rescued by their Word , who score the kangaroo with a large piece of wood . Similarly , a dramatic video released in2016shows the moment an Australian Orion perforate a kangaroo in the promontory to salvage his frankfurter who was trap in a headlock .
“ F*cking Kangaroos , ” Bishop ends the video .
