BBC
Roger, a kangaroo who won global fame for his enormous size and impressive physique, has died at the age of 12. The roo was rescued as a joey after his mother was killed in a car accident, and grew up at the Kangaroo Sanctuary in Alice Springs in Australia. And he grew up a lot – ending up more than 2m (6ft 7) tall and weighing 89kg (196lbs). The sanctuary announced his death from old age at the weekend, saying they had lost their “beautiful boy”. “He was still a baby when I saved him from his mother’s pouch after she’d gotten killed on the highway,” Chris “Brolga” Barns told the BBC.
Mr Barns set up the sanctuary as a place to raise him. The marsupial soon became the alpha, and had 12 wives. There are currently more than 50 kangaroos at the site.
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