A baby tree kangaroo finds confidence outside its mother’s porch

Adorable footage from the Healesville Sanctuary in Badger Creek shows a baby tree kangaroo at a zoo in Victoria, Australia, beginning to explore the world outside its mother’s porch. The zoo’s newest Goodfellas tree kangaroo – an endangered marsupial native to Indonesia – was named Ori and was born to mother Mani and father Bagam. In a press release sent to Storyful, Katherine Sallis of the Healesville Sanctuary Mammal Keeper said the tree kangaroo exhibit has been refurbished in preparation for tree kangaroo babies. She “trees her kangaroo her joey is really clumsy when it comes to discovering the world, so we’ve incorporated mulch and pea gravel into her house in case she falls,” Salis said. Told. “And we installed a new perch with thicker bark to help Ori learn how to climb.” , classified as endangered on the IUCN Red List. This is her one of her two priority species of Papua New Guinea tree kangaroos for which an international cooperative breeding program exists. The footage, released to Storyful, shows a baby tree kangaroo prancing around as she explores life outside her mother’s pouch. Credit: Healesville Sanctuary via Storyful