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Woman Acts Quickly To Save Baby Kangaroo From Pouch Of Its Dead Mother

Woman Acts Quickly To Save Baby Kangaroo From Pouch Of Its Dead Mother

The moment a joey is pulled to safety, from the pouch of its dead mother, is caught on video

Rachael Grealish

Rachael Grealish

Watch as the moment a little joey was pulled from the pouch of its dead mother was caught on camera.

The video shows the dead kangaroo at the side of the road. Lauren Wager, who shared the clip, approaches to check the animal, and when she checks the pouch she eventually pulls out a living joey.

Lauren, 32, of Thebarton, Australia, and her friend Sarah Wragge were on their way home from McLaren Vale when they spotted a dead kangaroo on the side of Seaview Rd about 4pm on Sunday.

When they got closer to the unfortunate animal, which had clearly been hit by a car, they noticed something strange.

She told the Adelaide Advertiser: "I swear I saw it move, so we chucked a U-turn and drove past it slowly and it was definitely moving.

"It was quite obviously kicking in the tummy and I got out and had a look and saw two little feet sticking out of its pouch."

When she realised a joey had survived the hit-and-run she quickly made a rescue attempt.

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She added: "It made like a little crying noise when I was trying to get him.

"I had to be gentle because it was pretty tightly packed in there.

"It was hard to get it out - I got both my hands in there and put it around the whole joey."

The little creature was obviously very scared and put up a struggle to leave the comfort of its mum's pouch, but with two hands, and a bit of effort, Lauren pulled the baby to safety.

After wrapping the little roo - which has since been named Jannick - in a big warm blanket, they took him to the fauna resceu expert Sibylle Kaufmann in Happy Valley.

According to reports from Mrs Kaufmann, the seven-month-old male joey weighs 1.2kg (2.6lbs) and is doing well.

Luckily the little boomer is at a point when it would be gaining new independence from its mum, as they tend to leave the pouch between the age of seven and ten months.

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For now little Jannick will live in a replacement pouch, made out of material, until he is big and strong enough to roam around with others of his kind.

Once he's fully grown Jannick will more than be able to hold his own - as shown only last year when a man bumped into a particularly hench kangaroo.

Jackson Vincent from Freemantle, Perth, was hunting in Western Australia when he came across a fully-grown boomer.

Vincent explained that the creature that was at least "two metres (6ft 5in) tall, or taller, and must have weighed at least 100 kg (16st)."

He added: "I definitely wouldn't like to take him on in a boxing match."

Featured Image Credit: Storyful

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