Chester Zoo welcomes Joey pademelon!
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People who work at zoos have talked about the “magic moment” when a baby pademelon comes out of its mother’s pouch for the first time. A jelly bean-sized joey was born at Chester Zoo. It took six months for the mammal to grow inside the pouch before it was photographed when it came out of the other end.
Seeing joey’s first look at the world brought a lot of happiness to the zookeepers. As soon as the new baby is born, it will be a few weeks before it is able to move and explore on its own. “That’s when we can figure out if it’s male or female and give it a name that fits”, said the authorities at Chester Zoo.
Pademelons!
The pademelon is small to a medium-sized mammal that lives in its forests and on its small islands. It is a lone animal and a night-time one. When pademelons are awake, they go out and look for berries, herbs, grass, and leaves to eat.
As soon as the animal spots a predator, it starts thumping the ground with its hind legs. This alerts other forest animals to the danger. The pademelon lives in the wild in the forests of New Guinea and a few other places in Indonesia.
Prone to extinction!
As per experts, the population of pademelons has dropped significantly in the last twenty years because of trapping, hunting, and cutting down trees to make way for rice farming and logging,
Experts have officially classified pademelons as “prone to extinction.” They have recommended that the remaining wild population in New Guinea be closely monitored to make sure the species will be around for a long time.
Chester Zoo is one of only four zoos in the UK that cares for dusky pademelons, and there are only 56 of them in Europe.
WAIT FOR IT… 👀
— Chester Zoo (@chesterzoo) April 7, 2022
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After months in mum's pouch, here's the amazing moment the TINY dusky pademelon joey finally took a peek outside 🤩#chesterzoo pic.twitter.com/D5e7o7CDht
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