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Kangaroo Dundee: Meet Chris ‘Brolga’ Barnes, the top Aussie bloke who has become a surrogate mother to orphaned kangaroos
- Aussie man is surrogate mum to hundreds of orphaned kangaroo joeys
- Chris 'Brolga' Barnes was dubbed 'Kangaroo Dundee' in a BBC series about his work caring for joeys
- Brolga was a tour guide then quit his job to start up his own kangaroo sanctuary in Alice Springs
- He was a finalist for the Australian of the Year awards in
- The Kangaroo Sanctuary has saved over orphaned kangaroos since
- Nicknamed 'Brolga' - the Aboriginal word for the Crane - because he's 6ft 7in tall
By ALEX LAZCANO FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
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Dubbed 'Kangaroo Dundee', Chris 'Brolga' Barnes has been saving orphaned kangaroo joeys in Outback Australia for the past nine years.
While working as a tour guide in the Northern Territory, he realised that people in remote areas of Australia were looking for a place to take orphaned or injured animals, so he opened The
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Chris 'Brolga' Barns on saving joeys, marriage proposals and the new love in his life
By JOHN KOSKI
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The star of Kangaroo Dunde, age 41
Chris cuddles up to a kangaroo
What’s so special about kangaroos? I have always been fascinated by the fact that they carry their babies in a pouch. They are brilliant mothers who have a very close relationship with their offspring. In a world where so many children don’t get any love, it’s something I view with great respect and fondness.
They are hardly endangered, so why rescue them? A dead kangaroo lying by the highway may have a baby in its pouch, a little orphan who faces being eaten alive by scavengers. It’s the worst thing imaginable from an animal welfare point of view. It doesn’t matter whether they are common or rare – it’s about sparande an individual from a harrowing death.
How many have you saved? I’ve been looking after orphan kangaroos and releasing them back into the bush for the past 20 years, dur
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Most people have heard of the Australian character, Crocodile Dundee. But few have heard of the man called "Kangaroo Dundee". But that will soon change for the animal lover who stars in a BBC documentary that follows his unusual life in the Australian Outback where he spends all his time mothering orphaned marsupials.
Kangaroo Dundee who is really Chris Barnes also known as 'Brolga' (an aboriginal word for stork), left his life in the city to move to the Outback and build a shack with no running vatten or heat. This is where he cares for the orphaned kangaroos that he comes across. He is a big man at 6'7" but to the kangaroos he is Mum, as he cares for them 24 hours a day. They go everywhere with him, to the grocery store, and they even sleep at the end of his bed.
Chris Barnes, who is in his 40s, started his new life 20 years ago after resc