It is not uncommon to see kangaroos in the wild in most rural parts of Australia. What photographer Evan Switzer recently witnessed however, is unlike anything he’s ever seen before.
Switzer spotted a family of kangaroos-mother, father and child in Queensland, Australia and knew something was up as soon as he saw the male trying to lift the female.
“He would lift her up and she wouldn’t stand she’d just fall to the ground, he’d nudge her, stand besides her… it was a pretty special thing, he was just mourning the loss of his mate,” Switzer told the Daily Mail Australia.
Switzer says he’s seen plenty of dead roos, but never anything like this. He noticed the adult male chasing other kangaroos away while the joey “looked kind of confused.” “It would stand by the mother and then hop off and chew some grass, and then come right back again.”
“It would stand by the mother and then hop off and chew some grass, and then come right back again.” The child came very close to the mom and touched her fur as the father held up her dying head.
The most heartbreaking moment however was when the mother went to reach for her baby one last time, and at that point we lost it.
We are unaware of how the mother died, and we pray for the joey and his father.
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[Featured Image Credit: Evan Switzer]