DES MOINES, Iowa — The Blank Park Zoo is welcoming a new member to their wallaby troop.
Matty, an 8-year-old Bennett’s wallaby, is with joey again the zoo announced earlier this week. The joey is still inside mom’s pouch, but has been seen taking frequent peeks of the outside world recently.
According to the zoo, joeys are about the size of a kidney bean when born, and are blind and hairless. After the joey is born they crawl up into their mom’s pouch where they stay for about 280 days.