Kangaroos Street Fight for Dominance in Residential Area (Video)

Two male kangaroos were filmed fighting on a suburban street in Australia and the five-minute video of the bout in Central Coast, New South Wales, is going viral.

Ritualized fighting, or boxing, between male kangaroos is common, but rarely seen on a residential street.

The YouTube video, titled "Wild Kangaroo streetfight" was posted by Rodney Langham and was seen almost a million times by Tuesday afternoon.

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“It’s something that we don’t normally see as people, especially in a suburban street,” Langham told NBC News.

A mob of kangaroos watched the 15-minute fight from nearby, the station reported.

Zookeeper Jessica Cook told the station that the winning roo would be the alpha male and win the right to mate.

Twitter users seemed to enjoy the video.

Just watched 5 minutes of kangaroos fighting in the street.. #entertaining

— ♔∞ Jess ☯♡卌 (@JessiicaClarke) October 7, 2014

I regularly deny that boxing kangaroos are always fighting on Aussie streets but alas: http://t.co/r7o7jt35qc (via @aaronshortstory)

— Amber Jamieson (@ambiej) October 7, 2014

Bruh if you see two kangaroos fighting in ya yard you can't even interrupt that or you might catch the double fade 😭😂 #LRT

— D. Sinatra (@ChancxDaft) October 7, 2014

Only in Australia two male kangaroos fighting over female would make news headlines around the world and in Australia

— amy/please liam (@5secsofzniam) October 7, 2014

Apparently all of the issues in the world have been resolved. Local news is showing video of kangaroos fighting. #WorldPeace #News

— The Specialist (@TheSpecialist4) October 7, 2014

Regardless of how your day is going, I'm pretty sure it will be improved with this video of kangaroos fighting. https://t.co/A4J5Rg6Xrz

— Benjamin Park (@BenjaminEPark) October 6, 2014

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