Xi Tianxin new member The first baby white kangaroo was born at the Nanshan Park Zoo in Yantai

Jiaodong Online March 27 news (trainee reporter Li Junfeng correspondent Jia Linlin) on the 27th, in the Yantai City Garden Nanshan Park Zoo, the reporter saw a small wallaby behind the mother to stick out their heads and look out. "You're lucky to see wallabies as soon as you come!" Keeper Zhang Leifeng said: "Recently the temperature has risen, and wallabies often jump out of the nursery bag to move freely. As the "Snow White" among kangaroos, the successful breeding of white kangaroos is the first time in Yantai. The reporter saw in the kangaroo hall that the mother kangaroo leisurely basked in the sun at the playground, and the wallabies followed behind the mother, digging the newly grown grass on the ground from time to time. The wallabies have grown a lot, and they are already half the height of the mother kangaroos, their bodies are snow-white, and their big red eyes are really pitiful. "Don't look at it so big, it will go into my mother's nursery bag every day for a long time." Zhang Leifeng and the reporter said not a moment later, I saw that the wallaby was about to enter the bag, only to see its front paws pull open the nursery bag, the head arched in first, and the hind legs and long tail were outside. "It may be sleepy, go back to the bag for milk, and then go to sleep." Zhang Leifeng lowered his voice to explain to reporters.

It is understood that marsupials are incompletely developed animals, which are premature fetuses, so they need to develop in the nursery bag. The newborn white kangaroo is surprisingly small, weighing only a few grams, and it grows in the mother kangaroo's brood bag for 6 to 8 months before it can fully emerge from the bag. When the reporter asked about the details of the wallaby's birth, Zhang Leifeng suddenly opened the conversation box. "When this wallaby was first born, we keepers didn't know it, because after it was born, the mother kangaroo immediately put it into the nursery bag, until we saw the white kangaroo mother frequently licking her own nursery bag and cleaning up the excrement of the cubs in the bag, and we were sure that the cubs had been successfully delivered." According to this calculation of time, this wallaby was born on National Day last year, which is also considered a National Day baby. When the wallaby is 2 months old, when we feed the female kangaroo, we occasionally see it sticking out of its head, the small head is red with red skin, with sparse white hair on it, it looks like a small mouse, and after about 2 to 3 minutes of probing out, it will retract back into the mother's nursery bag. Later, as the wallabies grew up, there were more and more opportunities to get out of the bags. According to Zhang Leifeng, after the birth of the wallaby, the zoo increased the supply of soybeans, eggs, apples and fresh grass to the mother kangaroo to ensure sufficient milk. Because the white kangaroo is timid and should not be approached, and the bag time is short, it is not yet possible to distinguish its sex.

Native to Australia, the white kangaroo is an endangered species worldwide, with just over 1,000 in the world. The white kangaroo is completely white and is known as "Snow White". Their living habits are the same as those of red kangaroos, living in forest areas, jumping and walking, feeding on grass, no fixed breeding season, about 1 month of pregnancy, 1 and a half years of maturity, and a lifespan of up to 10 years. White kangaroos are individual phenomena of genetic mutations in the red kangaroo population, and compared with other kangaroos, they are particularly squeamish, susceptible to disease, and have a low survival rate, so they are very precious.