澳洲一隻岩袋鼠(rock wallaby)媽媽慘被汽車撞死後棄屍路邊,已引來大堆螞蟻和蒼蠅,但袋鼠寶寶仍懵然不知,走到媽媽身邊落力吸吮母乳,屢次想鑽入媽媽的口袋不果,畫面令人心痛。

The baby rock wallaby was frightened and tried desperately to find her way back into her dead mother's pouch

這個場面由澳洲男子Chris Rishworth於北昆士蘭省的馬格內蒂克島(Magnetic Island)拍攝,他在踏單車時,發現這隻可憐的寶寶在媽媽腐爛的屍體旁邊,周圍都是螞蟻,但寶寶不知道媽媽已經去世,還希望鑽進媽媽的口袋,又在吸吮媽媽的乳頭。

Chris見到如此令人痛心的畫面,不忍就此將岩袋鼠寶寶遺棄,便把牠放入單車籃中,將牠送到動物庇護中心,預計很快便會復原,中心待牠成長後,會把牠放回自然環境。岩袋鼠與一般的袋鼠不同,在澳洲已開始面臨絕種危機,因岩袋鼠寶寶天生很容易在極緊張的情況下死亡,而且適合他們的棲息地又越來越少,加上在天敵的捕食之下,令牠們面臨絕種。

▼小岩袋鼠不願接受媽媽已離世的事實。

 Covered in ants and flies, the joey's mother had been killed by a car 

可愛的小岩袋鼠,若果絕種就真的太可惜。

Brought to the Wallaby Refuge on Magnetic Island, the owner said she was 'fine physically but a very frightened little girl', and would be receiving a lot of tender loving care to help her recover.

來源: Daily Mail 英國《每日郵報》