Saving the Brush-tailed Bettong
By RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (91539)
Daytona Beach, Florida
December 6, 2025 3:08pm CST
I know you want to know what this is before saving it. Well, it is a miniature kangaroo with a pouch for its young. It does have a strange side to it. When a predator threatens, the bettong ejects its joey from the pouch and bounces off in a different direction to evade capture. Unfortunately, this sacrificing of their own young might seem brutal but is an essential survival strategy so this species does not become extinct in South Australia. Now there is a project launched to save them.
https://www.cnn.com/science/bettong-bouncing-back-brink-of-extinction-spc-c2e?utm
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@crossbones27 (51776)
• Mojave, California
10h
They can balance on it, why its so thick like that. They balance and then kick and I know kangaroos kicks are crazy hard. It can break someones skull open but that is rare because its more of a mid section kick for a human. Its pretty crazy.
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@LindaOHio (207703)
• United States
31m
I know that's nature; but the ejecting of the joey is quite upsetting!
@GardenGerty (166700)
• United States
9h
That is odd behavior. So unlike the wild birds that will try to lead predators away from their young.
@celticeagle (182775)
• Boise, Idaho
12h
How very weird to hear of this practice. I think Mother Nature really has some doozies out there in the way of odd animal behavior.
