Two wallaby mothers are showing off their new babies at Zoo Boise. Baby wallabies, known as joeys, spend most of their early months inside their mother’s pouch.
Mothers Abbey and Kaiya are both Bennett’s wallabies, a species that comes from Australia and are related to kangaroos. Both Abbey and Kaiya were also born at the zoo, in 2010 and 2011.
The zoo doesn’t know the gender of the joeys yet. That will come with their first veterinary exams. Kaiya’s joey is five-months-old. Abbey’s is three-months-old.
The Wallaby Walkabout exhibit lets visitors walk into the enclosure and see the marsupials close up. The two new joeys are just starting to peer out of their mother’s pouches in the exhibit. In a few months, they will start leaving the pouch for short periods of time.
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