Today , Australia ( and the world ) mourns the release of a national icon . But Roger is not your common renown – he is an Internet - famous red kangaroo .
Chris Barns from the Kangaroo Sanctuary in Alice Springs share the lamentable news in aFacebook poston Saturday , tell fan the marsupial died of lifelike cause at the right old age of 12 .
" He lived a lovely long animation and was love by millions around the world . We will always fuck you and neglect you , Roger . "
Barns adopted Roger when he was just a joey after his mother was killed in a hit - and - run away accident in 2006 . He then built a chancel to put up Roger and his ( then ) two " wives " , Ella and Abigail .
Over the years , Roger uprise to epic proportions – even by kangaroo standards – reaching heights of 2 meter ( 6 feet 7 inches ) and weights of 89 kilograms ( 196 pounds),BBC Newsreports . He became the chancel ’s alpha male , enjoy a polyamorous relationship with his 12 " married woman " .
But it was in 2015 that Roger accomplish celebrity position when a clip of him shell a metallic element bucket with his barren hands ( blue , paws)went viral .
Roger ’s strength and aggression ( orjoie de vivre)were clear discernible in everything he did , whether it was chasing Barns , picking fights with other dollar bill in the sanctuary , orattacking inanimate aim . But with one-time age he became increasingly mellow , Barns said in anotherFacebook updateposted sooner this twelvemonth . And at 12 years honest-to-goodness , he had subsist a tenacious and tidy life .
Kangaroos like Roger can be to 14 but very seldom pass on that age in the outback . As Barns explained in an interview withBBC newsworthiness , as they get old and weak they become vulnerable to attack from animals like dingos and godforsaken dog .
RIP Roger .
In an ode to this splendid fauna , we have collated a list of some of the other implausibly hench beasts that have adorn the net in late years .
First , there is Shabani , the gorilla who caused a storm on the cyberspace ( and at one Japanese zoological garden ) because of his"brooding " good looks .
Then , there is this " absolute whole " of a ram .
And who can forget the impossibly butchmutant pigsfrom a Cambodian farm who look like they could arrange their own Orwellian - style rotation at any moment ?
And last but not least , Roger is not the first ( andprobably wo n’t be the last)hench rooto grab headlines .
