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24 Australian Geographic

CONSERVATION SCIENCE

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the tree kangaroo cross-

fostering technique.

Foster fuzz.^1 When Makaia was just a few weeks old, and his mother

died in an accident, he was transferred into the pouch of a yellow-

footed rock-wallaby.^2 Despite physical and behavioural differences

from a wallaby joey, he was not rejected.^3 At four months of age,

Makaia was removed from the pouch and^4 began to be looked after

by human carer Gayl Males, the zoo’s team leader for native mammals.

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