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Wildly Curious?

Are you loaded with questions about the animals you see at the Zoo? If your curiosity is driving you wild, click here to download the low-down on a few of our frequently asked questions.


It's not for makeup or boxing gloves. The pouch, or marsupium, serves as a built-in incubation site for the baby kangaroo, known as a joey. At birth, these tiny hoppers are only the size of a honeybee. They remain exclusively in the pouch for four to five months where they feed from the mother's teats, developing and growing. Then they'll begin to emerge from the pouch and explore their surroundings, never straying too far from mom. Joeys climb in and out of the pouch until they're about 18 months old, at which time they're completely independent. Female kangaroos will mature between 14 and 20 months, and male kangaroos will mature between 2-4 years.