How a baby kangaroo gets in the pouch
The kangaroo begins its life as a fertilized egg much as the same way as humans, but when the developing foetus is born, it is only about the size of a kidney bean. After birth it migrates, from its mother's uterus to the pouch where it continues development. The young kangaroo will mature there. After several weeks, the joey becomes more active and gradually spends more and more time outside the pouch, which it usually leaves completely between 7 and 10 months of age although it isn't uncommon to see basically a fully developed small kangaroo taking a free ride in its mother's pouch.
This video of a Kangaroo giving birth, will also show the remarkable journey to safety as the foetus climbs upward over the mother's belly, through her fur and into the pouch. Blind, pulling itself with tiny undeveoped buds that will someday be limbs.
Kangaroos usually have one young annually. The joey remains in the pouch for around nine months and continues to suckle until twelve to seventeen months of age. Kangaroos can have 3 babies at one time. One becoming mature and just out of the pouch, another developing in the pouch and one foetus. There are 4 teats in the pouch and each provides different milk for the different stages of development. Quite a remarkable aniimal!
Kangaroos are browsing animals, feeding on grass and other vegetation.