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15/04/2024

Recent studies conducted by Flinders University have uncovered 3 new species of Protemnodon (ancient kangaroo ancestor) from 50,000 years ago. One of those was about twice the size of the modern red kangaroo, at 190kg (420lb).

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of Australia - The Protemnodons and Diprotodons who were sadly brought to extinction, killed as a food source when man first walked the earth in Australia some 40,000 years ago..

Come and see modern kangaroos in the wild with Travel Ideology.

Wild Kangaroos, Sydney Tours. Come with us for this unique private tour experience & explore the Sydney kangaroo populations.

11/03/2024

We are now re-offering our Urban Kangaroos and Pelicans Tour. Bookings at this stage are on Sundays. This is an ideal way to learn about and see the Australian Pelican as well as explore a township where kangaroos and people share the streets. See https://www.sydney-tours.com.au/kangaroos-pelicans/

05/03/2024

Did you know wombat poo is actually cuboid shaped when it originally passes through the wombat's digestive tract? So next times someone says you can't push a square peg through a whole you can enlighten them. https://www.sydney-tours.com.au/wild-wombats/

03/03/2024

Did you know that the largest bats in the world have a wingspan of 5ft or over 1.5m? In Australia, we have bats that have a wingspan of over 3ft or about a metre. Wouldn't you like to see something unique? Come and see Sydney's bats with Travel Ideology.

https://www.sydney-tours.com.au/flying-foxes/

18/02/2024

Come Walk with Wild Wombats and see them up close and personal with Travel Ideology. Https://www.sydney-tours.com.au/wild-wombats/

25/01/2024

Happy Australia Day. We are one. We are many. We are Australian! Help us all celebrate Australia Day together.

22/11/2023

Today, we saw a number of flying fox mum's with their new born babies on one of our Walking with Flying Foxes tours https://www.sydney-tours.com.au/flying-foxes/

05/11/2023

Merry Christmas from Travel Ideology!

Whilst we won't find surfing kangaroos, we can find some wild kangaroos for you.

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13/10/2023

The 22nd October is International Wombat Day and the 24th October is International Kangaroo Day. As such we are offering our readers a 5% discount for Sydney Tours as follows. For our https://sydney-tours.com.au/wild-wombats/ tour 5% until 22nd October 2023 using code WOMBATDAY and for https://www.sydney-tours.com.au/wild-kangaroos/ and https://www.sydney-tours.com.au/urban-kangaroos 5% until 24th October 2023 using code KANGAROODAY when booking directly through our website https://www.sydney-tours.com.au/book-now/

If you are coming to Australia, now is the time to book and if you know someone who is coming to Australia, please pass it on.

10/10/2023

In Australia, even the kangaroos stop for the red lights.

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01/10/2023

What is an echidna's first form of defence?

It curls into a spiky ball and just sits there. This allows us at times to get quite close to them.

21/09/2023

Today the kangaroos were crossing at the kangaroo crossing.

21/09/2023

We spent a lovely afternoon with Nicole and Sara searching for kangaroos in the wild. Here are a few photos courtesy of Sara.

29/08/2023

We took an Italian family to see one of Sydney's colonies of fruit bats yesterday. The colony would have at least a thousand flying foxes. We watched them sleeping, flying, squawking and even turning upside down to defecate. For more information see https://www.sydney-tours.com.au/flying-foxes/

11/06/2023

Don't go chasin' waterfalls.

Whilst there are many beautiful waterfalls around Sydney, there are very few within the Greater Sydney area. The most beautiful and largest would be Curracurrong Falls in the Royal National Park. Whilst it is by no means large, it is interesting as it is one of the only waterfalls in the world to exit directly into the ocean.

21/05/2023

Sydney has been ranked 1st for best city to live in and the 5th best global city, according to the recent inaugural Brand Finance City Index after surveying 15000 respondents worldwide.

25/03/2023

On a walking with wild wombats tour yesterday, we saw this guy getting up for the night, still in his burrow. For more information on our walking with wild wombat tours, please have a look at https://www.sydney-tours.com.au/wild-wombats/

02/03/2023

As part of World Wildlife Day (3rd March 2023), Travel Ideology is offering a 5% discount on all tours until 8th March 2023. Just Book any tour and enter the coupon WILDLIFEDAY for your 5% discount.

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14/02/2023

Just a quick refreshing look at Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. The series was released in 1960s and featured a kangaroo and his friend Sonny Hammond. It was the Australian equivalent of Lassie.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=298506907595682

06/02/2023

Car races are sometimes different downunder. https://www.facebook.com/reel/545822864181246/?s=single_unit

22/12/2022

Yesterday, we were fortunate enough to share the day with the Hale family from USA. We were lucky enough to see wombats, wallabies, kangaroos, echidnas, a water dragon, lyrebirds, galahs, cockatoos, corellas, and kookaburras. The picture below is of an echidna that crossed the road and made a beeline to one of our guests.

https://www.sydney-tours.com.au/wild-wombats/

20/09/2022

Yesterday, we were lucky enough to see a pair of kangaroos fighting for dominance on one of our Urban Kangaroos Tours.

See https://www.sydney-tours.com.au/urban-kangaroos/

16/09/2022

An Australian man was killed by a kangaroo in a rare fatal attack earlier this week, the first fatal kangaroo attack since 1936

PERTH, Australia — A man who may have been keeping a wild kangaroo as a pet was killed by the animal in southwest Australia, police said Tuesday.

Whilst there have been a number of serious injuries over the years involving kangaroos, it was reportedly the first fatal attack by a kangaroo in Australia since 1936.

A relative found the 77-year-old man with "serious injuries" on his property Sunday in semirural Redmond, 400 kilometres (250 miles) southeast of the Western Australia state capital Perth.

It was believed he had been attacked earlier in the day by the kangaroo, which police shot dead because it was preventing paramedics from reaching the injured man, police said.

The man died at the scene. Police are preparing a report for a coroner who will record an official cause to death.

Police believe the victim had been keeping the wild kangaroo as a pet. This was a large adult male kangaroo and they become quite aggressive and they don't do well in captivity.

There are legal restrictions on keeping Australian native fauna as pets, but the police media office said Tuesday they had no information to make public regarding whether the victim had a permit.

The males can be aggressive and fight people with the same techniques as they use with each other. They use their short upper limbs to grapple with their opponent, use their muscular tails to take their body weight, then lash out with both their powerful clawed hind legs.

In 1936, William Cruickshank, 38, died in a hospital in Hillston in New South Wales state on the Australian east coast months after he'd been attacked by a kangaroo. Cruickshank suffered extensive head injuries including a broken jaw as he attempted to rescue his two dogs from a large kangaroo, The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported at the time. In this instance the dogs, a natural predator would have caused the kangaroo to become aggressive.

This is a good reason to take a tour with one of our kangaroo whisperers. https://www.sydney-tours.com.au/urban-kangaroos/

29/08/2022

What happens when kangaroo fighting gets ugly. One kangaroo pushes another through a fence.

Kangaroo Shoved Through Fence During Tussle at Canberra Nature ReserveA fight between two kangaroos at a Canberra nature reserve on August 23 came to an abru...

24/08/2022

I was asked a question on a tour yesterday "What does a wombat look like?" The passengers were American. So the only way that I thought to describe it was that it was like a Capybara but was larger with shorter stockier legs. They looked at the image on a mobile phone and said it looked like a hyrax (or dassie) which it does.

16/08/2022

We have recently revamped our website. Please take a look and provide some constructive feedback.

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07/08/2022

We have recently upgraded our booking system to make it easier for people to book our tours directly through our website.

See https://www.sydney-tours.com.au/book-now/

01/08/2022

We recently had the pleasure of international wildlife photographer Stephen Adgate and his wife Carla on one of our wild kangaroo tours. Here are a couple of joeys that Steve took. Images are his copyright and reproduced with his permission.

Steve has an eye for wildlife photography and sells his photos at https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/stephen-adgate

His kangaroos shots can be found at
https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/stephen-adgate/art/kangaroo