A kangaroo has escaped certain death after becoming entangled in a barbed wire fence thanks to a passing photographer and his wife.
Mark Button was travelling on his way home from a holiday in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, with wife Rosie Button on April 27 when she spotted the stranded roo with its feet in the air.
The couple rushed over to the trapped marsupial to discover that while attempting to leap the fence his foot clipped it and became tangled in the wire.
Mark and Rosie became the perfect team to free the frightened animal, with Rosie, 47, talking to him in a soothing voice while Mark, 49, assessed his predicament.
Bare-handed Mark then forced the barbed wires apart just wide enough to give the kangaroo the chance to wriggle out of the fencing and bounce to freedom.
Despite managing to free the animal, engineer Mark then found himself in a predicament of his own when his hand got stuck between the wires – but managed to get free unharmed.
Freelance photographer Mark, from Brisbane, Australia, said: ‘It was pretty cool to get so close to such an iconic animal.
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‘I wasn’t nervous about approaching it because I was on the other side of the fence. He was well and truly stuck, he just wanted out of there.
‘He’d gone to jump the fence, clipped the second wire down and flipped it up over the top of the first one.
‘That’s why it’s jammed so hard because they tension those wires pretty tight.
‘That’s part of the reason why my fingers were still in there – they came down with a real twang. I was really trying not to break my fingers.’
Mum-of-two Rosie said they saw other Kangaroos who had not been so lucky.
She added: ‘It’s really lucky we were driving that way as when we drove a little way down the road there was a dried out one in the same position that had got stuck in the same way.
‘If you think about it it’s a pretty awful way for a roo to die.’
