Melbourne
Wildlife officials are baffled by a spate of headless kangaroo corpses that have been dumped in recent weeks on a golf course outside Melbourne. The Yarrambat Park course is normally home to some 300 kangaroos, but in the past three weeks at least 12 have turned up dead, and without their heads. “I’ve been here 20 years and I’ve never seen anything like it,” said groundskeeper Rod Joronen, who buried the first few corpses he discovered before realizing something was up. Australia’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is now investigating. “It’s strange,” said Catherine Smith of the RSPCA. “The heads have been taken off with a clean cut.”
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