# @science on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DHg6XuEKeld
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/61248037-science-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-03-22T20:03:17.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Science 🧬 (@science) — https://gondola.cc/science

## Caption

🦘 Unlike most mammals, newborn kangaroos are extremely underdeveloped at birth. After just 34 days of gestation, the tiny jelly bean-sized joey makes an incredible journey - climbing through its mother's fur to reach the safety of the pouch. Once there, it attaches to a teat and feeds continuously for over two months.⁠
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At six months, the joey begins taking short trips outside the pouch, returning to feed. Red kangaroos permanently leave the pouch at eight months but continue nursing for 3-4 more months. Grey kangaroos stay longer, leaving at 11 months and nursing until 18 months old. Female kangaroos have remarkable reproductive abilities - they can simultaneously nurse two different-aged joeys with two different milk compositions while carrying a fertilized egg ready for development. Only females have pouches since males don't produce milk or rear young.⁠
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🎥 courtesy of: @animaledventures⁠
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