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VIDEO: Baby tree kangaroo fostered by rock wallaby

Makaia, a rare, orphaned baby tree kangaroo at Adelaide Zoo, was successfully cross fostered with a rock wallaby mother for the first stages of its life. Image credit: Dave Mattner

IT’S IMPOSSIBLE not to love Makaia, the unlikely baby tree roo survivor at Adelaide Zoo who was fostered by a rock-wallaby after him own mother was killed by a falling branch in November last year. For several decades Zoos South Australia, which includes Adelaide Zoo, has pioneered a clever conservation breeding method called cross-fostering.

Read the full story in #127 (July/Aug) of the Australian Geographic journal. 

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