They bounce across the roof of Parliament House. They collide with cars. They come in through the bedroom window.
Canberra, Australia's capital, has a problem — too many kangaroos.
Authorities have tried giving them vasectomies and oral contraceptives, to no avail. They say trucking them to new and distant pastures is too expensive. Now they're proposing a cull. But many people are aghast at the idea of their best-known marsupial being shot en masse in the national capital.
A government survey has found that more than 80 percent of Canberra residents think the wild kangaroos should stay.
On the other hand, in a different survey, 17 percent of drivers in the district reported having collided with a kangaroo at least once.
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