Photo: Kangaroos To Be Killed in Australian Capital

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A surge in the numbers of eastern gray kangaroos near Australia's capital, Canberra, has left government officials little choice but to cull the overgrazing marsupials, they say.

But animal rights groups claim that tranquilizing and relocating the animals would be a more humane solution.

Photograph by Jason Edwards/National Geographic Society

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