This rare white kangaroo will melt your heart
22 Jan 2021
Gulf Today Report
A kangaroo in the Animal Adventure Park in New York gave birth to joey, an all-white fur, according to the zoo’s social media.
The white Joey was born to a red kangaroo. Red kangaroos are born the size of your thumbnail, and do much of their development in mom s pouch, outside of the womb.
This is not your standard red kangaroo!
At the age of approximately 4-5 months, we do our first full pull , removing the baby from mom s pouch for a full inspection and medical review, and then return the joey to mom s pouch for her to raise.
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A kangaroo with all-white fur was born in a zoo in New York.
Visitors to the Animal Adventure Park in New York will soon be able to view one rare animal - a kangaroo with white fur. The zoo revealed that one of their kangaroos had given birth to a joey with all-white fur a post shared on social media Friday.
The Animal Adventure Park is home to an extremely rare kangaroo.
Rosie, a red kangaroo that came to the park last year, gave birth to what park officials are calling a leucistic male joey.
Leucistic is the lack of color pigmentation, resulting in a white coat. Although it s similar to albino, leucistic animals have black color pigmentation in the eyes, instead of red-eyed albino mutation.
Red kangaroos are born the size of your thumbnail, and do much of their development in mom s pouch, outside of the womb, park officials explained. At the age of approximately 4-5 months, we do our first full pull, removing baby from mom s pouch for a full inspection and medical review, and then return the joey to mom s pouch for her to raise.