How mother kangaroo takes care of their baby kangaroo?

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Answer 1

it keeps warm in her pouch drinking her milk until its big enough to come out and look after itself

Answer 2

Baby kangaroo is called a joey. When it is born it's about the size of a jelly bean. It starts off with no fur, eyes closed, no ears, and just its two front paws which it can use to crawl.

The tiny joey crawls by grabbing the fur of its mother's belly and finds its way into the mother's pouch. There it sucks onto her nipple. It stays there for months and months, too small and undeveloped to do anything.

When white explorers first came to Australia, they couldn't separate the tiny baby joey from the mothers' nipples. They thought that joeys started off as a bud on the end of the nipples.

After a few months the joey doesn't need to stay attached to the nipple all the time. It can look out of the pouch. It's kind of soft and floppy like a puppy and its ears are still floppy, but now it looks like a little kangaroo.

The joey begins to pop in and out of the pouch. It eats a bit of grass, but still goes back into the pouch at the first sign of danger.

The joey stays with the mother for about a year. Even when it's become too big for the pouch, and a new baby has latched onto the other nipple (there are two nipples) the older joey will still stick its head back into the pouch for a drink of milk.

Mother kangaroos take care of their young in the same way that most mammals care for their young. She socialises it and cleans it by l*****g. She disciplines it when it gets annoying and hugs and protects it when there's danger around. She teaches it how to be part of the mob.