What’s Inside A Kangaroo’s Pouch?

A kangaroo pouch may look like a simple pocket, but it’s actually a complex nursery specially designed to care for a growing joey. After all, the newborn baby is just the size of a jellybean when it crawls into the pouch and grows to the size of a large house cat. So, the pouch is equipped with goodies like nipples that release customized milk and germ-fighting sweat glands.

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What’s Inside A Kangaroo’s Pouch?

[kayleighbennett]

21 years I’ve been on this earth and I always thought the pouch was like a pocket of fur. Wow.

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

Who else remembers when a guy punched a kangaroo to save his dog. The kangaroo was stunned

[theannouncer]

Kangaroos are pretty cool. They’re like a deer mixed with a mouse mixed with a trampoline

[RinoSan]

Ah yes, a quality video to watch at 2am.

[burpiii]

so basically the safest cave in the world

[hinderance]

0:10 so there's a worm-hole inside a kangaroo pouch...

[Kjai]

32 years. 32 years it took to find out that the pouch wasn’t a fur pouch to keep the Joey warm.

[roninbayacal]

A baby kangaroo version of me would be like...

"Mum, can I never leave ur pouch??"

[ninjanutzforfun]

How did those scientists figure out that part about the nipples? :/

[Linasrecovery]

0:17
“An adult male red kangaroo can stan over 1.5 m tall and weigh 90 kg, *thats larger than a grown man!*”

my brain :
ED FROM 90 DAY FIANCÉ

[migs]

Anyone else curious how it feels to stay in that pouch? >_>

[teawrecks]

dad: "hey, did you know that in australia there are six-foot tall horse-dinosaur things that jump around and carry their babies in a pocket"

7-year old me: "pffth, yeah right"

**later**

8-year old me: "HOLY CRAP KANGAROOS ARE REAL"

[.autumnsketch]

Everytime i see kangaroos pouches. I just imagine if humans had those. You'd see babies head pop out of womens belly buttons xD oh

[cheeseburgermonkey]

Baby kangaroos have their own pouches
and that pouch contains a other kangaroo
and that kangaroo has their own puch
and so on
IT'S PERPETUAL KANGAROO TIME

[JackHadFriends]

I could be wrong, but what fascinates me is that all these animals which carry their young in pouches seem to only be in Australia and the surrounding area. So they just evolved to do that in that specific area. It's like Australia is the research and development phase for a lot of animals which are just vastly different from everywhere else. Even something like the egg-laying mammal Platypus comes from Australia. What is going on over there!?

[SciFactsYT]

Fun fact: If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop.

[mynamejeff]

I just wanted to see inside not an explanation

[kathryncarter]

How extremely interesting!
Lots of stuff here I never knew. Thanks for sharing.

[kurosakiyuichin]

Milk full with sulfur for hair growth?! Hmm.... What if we feed that on a bald man😂😂

[TheOnlyBobE]

Asking the real important questions now, Science Insider.