Five Kangaroo heads found on Queensland beach
The severed heads of five kangaroos have been found on a beach at Deception Bay, north of Brisbane.
Local resident Angie Rando was out walking with her two children, aged four and five, when she made the grisly discovery near a boat ramp on Sunday.
"My daughter, she's five, became quite hysterical - all she wanted me to do was ring the ambulance," Ms Rando said.
"My first thought was: 'Oh my God, how could someone do this, especially to our wildlife?'
"It was terrible to think someone could do this sort of thing."
Ms Rando said the bodies of the decapitated kangaroos were nowhere to be found.
"We can only assume how these poor animals were murdered," she said.
She was disgusted the remains had been left in a public area.
"It wasn't a good sight for the children to see," she said.
RSPCA spokesman Michael Beatty said the ghastly scene, which has since been cleaned up by local authorities, was the result of an act of unprecedented cruelty.
"We've seen kangaroos that have been shot with arrows and had all sorts of other unpleasant things happen to them but we've never actually come across five like this," Mr Beatty said.
He said the heads may have been used as fish bait.
The RSPCA is seeking information to help track down those responsible.
Mr Beatty said it also appeared, from the photographs, that at least one of the kangaroos had been struck on the head with a blunt instrument.
"We can't do an autopsy because the council has disposed of them, but the eyes were bulging profusely on one and it looks as though there was possibly an indentation on its skull so it could have been bashed on the head," he said.
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