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The birth of the little one, which is of the tree kangaroo family, "An amazing event in the Bronx Zoo and a unique opportunity for people to observe one of nature’s most amazing evolutionary adaptations"said Jim Breheny, director of the American Zoo, in a new statement.
The tree machi kangaroo is native to Papua New Guinea and is from Endangered animals According to the classification International Union for Conservation of Nature. It is a tree-dwelling marsupial that lives in mountainous rainforests.
The family is much smaller than the famous Australian red kangaroo. The adult male Machi tree kangaroo weighs between 9 and 11 kilograms. Zoo officials said that the baby’s size at birth was the size of a human fingernail, and that the infant crawls towards its mother’s fur to enter her pouch and emerges regarding seven months later.
Prihini added "At this stage of development, the youngster spends a lot of time in its mother’s pouch with only its head visible. As he grows, he will begin to explore his environment and spend short times outside the pouch."
Conservationists and nature activists believe that less than 2,500 animals from kangaroo Tree machi still live in wild. It is threatened by the destruction of its habitat andthe hunt and other human activities.
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The birth of the baby, an arboreal kangaroo, “is an amazing event in the Bronx Zoo and a unique opportunity for people to observe one of nature’s most amazing evolutionary adaptations,” US Zoo director Jim Breheny said in a new statement.
The tree machi kangaroo is native to Papua New Guinea and is from Endangered animals According to the classification International Union for Conservation of Nature. It is a tree-dwelling marsupial that lives in mountainous rainforests.
The family is much smaller than the famous Australian red kangaroo. The adult male Machi tree kangaroo weighs between 9 and 11 kilograms. Zoo officials said that the baby’s size at birth was the size of a human fingernail, and that the infant crawls towards its mother’s fur to enter her pouch and emerges regarding seven months later.
“At this stage of development, the baby will spend a lot of time in its mother’s pouch with only its head visible. As it grows, it will begin to explore its environment and spend short times outside the pouch.”
Conservationists and nature activists believe that less than 2,500 animals from kangaroo Tree machi still live in wild. It is threatened by the destruction of its habitat andthe hunt and other human activities.
