An emu farmer, 52, from Tanjil South, near Moe in Victoria, was flown to the Alfred hospital in Melbourne with head injuries after a kangaroo led his wife to find him unconscious under a damaged tree yesterday.
Rural Ambulance Victoria paramedic Eddie Wright, a fishing companion of the man, was on the ambulance called to treat him at 9.15am.
"This man possibly owes his life . . . to that animal," Mr Wright said. "It's blind in one eye and has hung around the property for the past 10 years, basically since it was a baby."
Mr Wright said the man left home to cut up a storm-felled tree. He was hit on the head by a falling branch.
"When the kangaroo has gone up to the house and knocked against their glass sliding door, not once but twice, they thought it was strange. But then the roo came back a third time . . . throwing its whole self against the back door," Mr Wright said.
This time, Mr Wright said, the man's wife followed the kangaroo to the top of a crest from where she saw it keeping watch over her husband.
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Rural Ambulance Victoria paramedic Eddie Wright, a fishing companion of the man, was on the ambulance called to treat him at 9.15am.
"This man possibly owes his life . . . to that animal," Mr Wright said. "It's blind in one eye and has hung around the property for the past 10 years, basically since it was a baby."
Mr Wright said the man left home to cut up a storm-felled tree. He was hit on the head by a falling branch.
"When the kangaroo has gone up to the house and knocked against their glass sliding door, not once but twice, they thought it was strange. But then the roo came back a third time . . . throwing its whole self against the back door," Mr Wright said.
This time, Mr Wright said, the man's wife followed the kangaroo to the top of a crest from where she saw it keeping watch over her husband.
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