Name: Inside a Kangaroo Pouch - Smarter Every Day 139
Uploaded: 2020-03-26T03:50:04.000Z
Duration: 9 min 4 s
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Hey it's me Destin, welcome back to Smarter Every Day.

Several years ago I was invited to Australia to help promote National Science Week

with my friend Chris who has a website called Science Alert.

As far as I knew kangaroo pouches look like,

well you know, your jean pocket, like a little flap.

We've all seen cartoons of kangaroos but is that what a kangaroo pouch looks like?

My wife and I flew over to visit Chris and right off the bat this happened.

- He's gonna cut right across in front of us.

- You will see some roadkill, and now you'll know why.

I called that in. I said I want a roo at the Chinese Embassy.

- And yeah that's pretty cool but it didn't feel like a wild kangaroo

so I asked Chris to take us to a local area called the Tidbinbilla Nature Preserve

where hundreds of kangaroos are known to hang out.

- OK we spent all that time out in the wilderness and then we come back to grill some sausage and they're coming up to us,

so obviously we have to see if we can find the pouch.

- But it's.. They're on the ground. Look, go for it.

Look, you have a degree in biology and I don't.

- I think he does have a small one. I think.

- You want me to give him some more nibbles?

Today we learn kangaroos do not have pouches.

Alright, let me.. I'm just gonna reach under here.

Female kangaroos have pouches and hold joeys.

Therefore it's possible that male kangaroos have pouches

Even though I was touching this kangaroo directly

So the next day we're driving to Kangaroo Valley

OK we're randomly walking up to a house and we're gonna ask about kangaroos.

- Angela, so Alan has told us something that's amazing about the kangaroo.

- Kangaroo is an amazing animal, it's unusual,

it's unique in the world, it's a furred animal,

four-legged and it's the only animal in the world that has its testicles in front of its penis.

- I guess that explains why the geometry felt weird.

- So.. How.. Are they born with the pouch?

- Yeah they are. Well.. They develop a pouch.

They're born, they're minute, they're smaller than your little finger

And then they climb up the front of the kangaroo on the fur.

She licks a track, they climb up and they go into the pouch.

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Inside a Kangaroo Pouch - Smarter Every Day 139

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