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Roos hot to trot after the floods

Story Added : 10th March 2010
Updated: 1 minute ago

Forget candlelit dinners - a good flood has made conditions the best they've been for years for kangaroos to start making love.

Rain and floodwaters are preparing the perfect setting for kangaroos numbers to explode in Queensland.

University of Queensland wildlife behaviour lecturer Andrew Tribe says numbers could increase by 20 to 30 per cent within months.

"It's really a very neat reproductive system designed to exploit the conditions we have in Australia, which are traditionally boom and bust conditions, and we're in boom at the moment," he says.

Story Added by ABC.
Date Added : 10th March 2010

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