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A baby kangaroo, living proof evolution outsourced the third trimester to a pocket.
means A young kangaroo (or, more loosely, the young of other marsupials like wallabies and possums), especially one still riding around in its mother's pouch.
from From an Aboriginal language of New South Wales — part of the wave of words like 'kangaroo' and 'koala' that English settlers borrowed because nothing in their own vocabulary covered a creature that keeps its baby in a built-in pocket. 'Joey' simply meant 'young animal' before English narrowed it almost exclusively to baby kangaroos and their marsupial cousins.
- birth size
- about the size of a jellybean
- pouch time
- stays inside roughly 6 to 9 months
- not just roos
- also used for baby wallabies and koalas