Emu? I would've thought a dingo...
Posted on 04/16/2009 11:01:28 AM PDT by nickcarraway
With her huge furrry ears and long, quivering nose, baby kangaroo Tijana is utterly adorable.
But her unarguable cuteness hides a rather unfortunate start to her short life.
At just a few weeks old, the tiny creature tumbled from the pouch of her mother, who had been terrified by an emu. Tijana, who lives at Belgrade Zoo, in Serbia, had to be retrieved by staff and is now being handreared.
She is still so young she cannot survive outside of a pouch and must stay in a special incubator, where the temperature remains a constant 35C. Biologists have also made a special set of canvas pouches so she can be carried around by staff.
Tijana has to be fed every two hours with a special milk that arrived from America and Germany. The Australian embassy is also sending some supplies.
Young kangaroos, known as joeys, crawl into the pouch as soon as they are born. They spend approximately 190 days curled up in the warm and make their first forays out into the world at the end of that time.
At around 235 days, the joey leaves the pouch for good but will spend another few months with its mother before becoming independent.
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Emu? I would've thought a dingo...
“Maybe the Dingo ate your baby.”
Do emu’s eat joeys?
the emu appearently sacred the joey out of the mother
I was scared by an emu once.
Oh, wait, forgetful me, it was an Obamemu.
Leni
It wasn’t so much that she was scared- she just found out how much money she lost by investing in an emu ranch.
Looks sad.
The story was sad enough, but now you’re saying the mamma roo bought the ranch?
:-(
How would you feel, if you were kicked out of your pouch?
We are born cold, wet, naked, and crying. Life only gets worse.
Well, she lost her shirt, anyway.
Hobbes?
Poor baby. She’s cute.
Cute little bugger. Glad they rescued it.
Awww. Ain’t he cute!
My first thought was looks a bit like a mule, heheh. Cute lil one anyway, all babies are.
NOT necessarily...
They don’t say why they didn’t just put it back in the pouch. Maybe the mom rejects it once it falls out.
It's "eem-u", not "e-moo"
Maybe the kangaroo was scared by an emo kid.
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