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00:00 [Music]
00:04 [Cow moos]
00:06 [Music]
00:11 [Cow moos]
00:13 [Music]
00:17 Some people may say, "It's a bit weird, a big guy like me,
00:27 taking care of orphaned kangaroos."
00:29 But I do it because I see what the others can't see.
00:33 I see that when I'm called out to help.
00:36 [Music]
00:38 [Music]
00:41 [Music]
00:55 [Music]
00:58 Wow!
01:02 I love to watch them when they're free.
01:06 This is the best part of the night.
01:08 [Music]
01:11 Like him, a really wild, adorable kangaroo.
01:23 [Music]
01:25 This is the life of Brolga and his kangaroos.
01:28 [Music]
01:36 It's 2 a.m.
01:45 In his cabin in the middle of nature in the centre of Australia,
01:48 Brolga is not sleeping.
01:50 [Music]
01:53 They often call out during the night
02:08 which is a baby I once called his mum.
02:13 So it's important for me to take them to bed
02:17 and to help them overcome their trauma.
02:21 They've lost all their marks and all they've ever loved.
02:26 They're so young.
02:28 [Music]
02:30 The cabin is on the edge of the kangaroo sanctuary.
02:46 It has no electricity and the comfort is very limited.
02:50 But Brolga has chosen to live this way
02:52 because he has chosen to devote his life to the orphaned.
02:56 This is the little Ruby.
03:03 We found her on the highway.
03:06 And the little Rex. He was also alone on the highway.
03:13 Thousands of kangaroos die each year on Australian roads.
03:17 Rex and Ruby survived because they were in their mother's arms.
03:21 Brolga will do everything to make them grow up normally.
03:27 What little Ruby and little Rex need most of all
03:34 is someone to be there to pick them up when they call their name.
03:42 What I want most for Ruby and Rex
03:46 is to have a healthy child.
03:51 You can hear Ruby making a little sound
04:00 because she's very satisfied with having a nice gut full of milk.
04:05 It's like a little whistle.
04:09 I think she doesn't want any more.
04:12 No, it's okay.
04:14 At this age, they need to be taken care of all the time.
04:18 But they won't live inside for very long.
04:21 They will need about six months of education from Brolga
04:25 to be ready to return to nature.
04:28 For now, it's okay. Everything is going well.
04:33 My goal is to set Ruby and Rex free.
04:39 In the sanctuary.
04:41 Brolga takes advantage of the nap of the two little ones
05:01 to do his daily patrol.
05:05 (Music)
05:08 The sanctuary has 28 kangaroos.
05:22 Many have been raised in the Pibron by Brolga.
05:28 Today, they enjoy a 36-hectare land.
05:31 (Music)
05:34 Brolga hopes that Rex and Ruby will join them in a few months.
05:41 Some kangaroos will stay in Brolga's sanctuary.
05:53 Others will regain their freedom.
06:00 The sanctuary where they are kept here is a free range place.
06:05 It's not a zoo or a wild park.
06:08 It's a refuge.
06:11 (upbeat music)
06:13 (whooshing)