KANGAROOS IN ENGLAND.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6834, 23 April 1890, Page 4

KANGAROOS IN ENGLAND.

The problem whether kangaroos can be acclimatised in England appears to have been solved at Tring Park by a very simple process. Hitherto it seems to have been assumed that the only chance of keeping kangaroos in our climate is to rear them on the principle which, to use a vulgar colloquialism, is known aB " coddling." They have accordingly been kept and tended in pens or small enclosures, as we see them in Regent's Park. At Tring Park, however, according to the interesting account of Mr Walter Rothschild, they have been simply turned loose in the park and woods, and the experiment has proved remarkably successful. Fifteen years since the late Baron de Rothschild endeavoured to breed kangaroos, but the male and young one were unfortunately poisoned by eating laurel— a danger which English kangaroo breeders will do well to note. Of late, however, the experiment has been renewed, with success. They are found, we are told, to breed freely, and there are now to be seen in Tring Park twentyeight or thirty native kangaroos, including the red and black species, Bennett's wallaby, the black wallaby, and the larger roacropius, generally known as " the giant kangaroo." In the face of such facts there can be little doubt, observes the Daily News, that this curious creature is destined to rank among our most familiar domestic animals.