Two kayakers in Australia braved a terrified baby wallaby’s ferocious kicks while saving it from open water.
Video shows the panicked animal’s powerful hind legs repeatedly striking one of the kayakers in the head as they tried plucking it from the sea off the coast of Noosa, in Queensland, on Aug. 18.
As the kayakers struggled to calm down the creature, which they’d found swimming around in circles, jet skier Jonah Cooper arrived on the scene to help.
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