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Caption: About 6000 specimen of the eastern gray kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) live in two military areas on the edge of Canberra. Australian Department of Defense starts now to cull some hundreds of kangaroos because they are abundant and destroying the native grassland habitat of threatened species.
Credit: Photo: Anett Richter/UFZ
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