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Lulu to the rescue

Lulu and Richards...

A kangaroo named Lulu was hailed a hero for saving an unconscious Australian farmer by alerting the man's wife and leading her to where he lay trapped under a fallen tree branch.

Hobby farmer Leonard Richards was checking for storm damage on his property at Tanjil South, 150 km (93 miles) east of Melbourne, when he was hit by a falling branch.

The kangaroo began barking until Richards' wife came to investigate.

She found her husband lying unconscious under a tree about 200 metres from the house, guarded by the grey kangaroo. Lulu was hand-reared by the Richards family, who rescued her from her mother's pouch after a car killed her mother about four years ago.

Compiled by NIMI KURIAN

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