The Matschie's tree kangaroo is endemic to the Huon Peninsula ... After birth, the fetus-like young, called a joey, crawls to a teat located inside the mother's pouch, where it attaches itself ...

At birth, the tree kangaroo joey is the size of a jellybean, and the majority of its physical development occurs in the mother’s pouch. Joeys don’t emerge fully from the pouch for about seven ...

While the tree kangaroo is related to the land kangaroo found in Australia, it has shorter, wider hind feet and a longer, narrower tail than its cousin. The tree kangaroo's heavy, curved claws ...

It has to be, because the joey inside is not your average baby. An adult male red kangaroo can stand over 1 1/2 meters tall and weigh 90 kilograms. That's larger than a grown man. But the newborns ...

The kangaroo joey in this video is a natural at hopping, quickly jumping on his own seconds after leaving his mom's pouch Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...