Wouldn't Skippy be more incentivized to learn to hold the thing if it had a hole in it and contained milk? Then after he learns to hold it, he could be provided with an empty one for non-feeding times.
ROO AWAKENING Tijana, a 6-month-old baby kangaroo, in her incubator at the Belgrade Zoo. The infant kangaroo fell out of her mothers pouch and is now being fed with special milk donated by Australia, the United States and Germany. (Photo by Srdjan Ilic/AP via the NY Times) 2 months ago