Bettong Joey Project

[@animalwondersmontana]

Our male, Quigley, was donated to us from a zoo in NV and our female, Babette, was given to us by a private owner in AZ. There's many factors to their population decline and habitat loss is one of them. Some other culprits are predation from invasive species (red fox, feral cat) and parasitic infestation. There are several projects in Australia focused on breeding programs and habitat protection.

[@V.Hansen.]

Holy cow. He looks too big to be in there any more. Like carrying around a preteen! They are all adorable.

[@animalwondersmontana]

I'd love to share more about our birds! Maybe that will be our next project!

[@davidyeh1234]

Arrived from SciShow, keep up the awesome work Jessi!

[@melissamartin8266]

That little joey is so cute.

[@dianahensley4705]

Loved the video about the Bettong Joey project! Never knew there were animals like them. Rodents or not, they are really neat!

[@TheBlackrose1989]

Marsupials are simultaneously the CUTEST mammals on the planet, and also the most effing creepy. Every time an offspring hops in and out of the pouch freaks me the ever lovin' hell out. It's a constant battle, "So cute but OH GOD but too cute, but HOLY GOD THAT IS AN ALIEN AND NOTHING WILL CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE but soooo much cuteness!"

[@ShadeSlayer1911]

Don't forget the males' bifurcated penis and the female's weird uterus and vagina. Marsupial reproductive systems are frikin weird.

[@TheBlackrose1989]

Right?! Incidentally I feel like that needs to be on a t-shirt.

[@ShadeSlayer1911]

Jacqueline Marie Learning about them for my mammals class was really awkward, just because of how different they were from other mammals.

[@hinkuz]

They eat the fun guy?! ...sorry I had to :P love your channel, such an inspiration :)

[@bizmullen9972]

Your like my role model Jessi!!!!!!!!

[@annabellebarr6248]

Well not your job specifically. I just think you have the best job ever

[@gabrieldomino]

You are doing an amazing work! Thanks for sharing with us!

[@darkmage07070777]

He's not learning to be adorable, that's something he knew inherently from birth :-)

[@huyked]

They are SO cute!

[@ShadeSlayer1911]

Do you take any measures to make sure these guys can be reintroduced back into the wild to save the wild populations(s)?

[@isamusg]

So cute! Keep at it Jessi!

[@BaconHer0]

Oh my god if I had bubble wrap I'd pop all of it while watching this - too bad I was holding on to a wine glass and now I need stitches.

[@CBeurling]

Hahaha xD Hope you are fine now ;)

[@facesbysusanna]

😖

[@facesbysusanna]

Awwww how CUTE

[@NovelNovelist]

OMG, so cute!!!

[@poniesandlife]

Will he marry me? It is just so small and cute and I want to love it and squeeze it and hug it and feed it!

[@PeppyTheCrawdad]

So cute. And awesome. And stuff.

[@PINGPONGROCKSBRAH]

Hey Jesse, what do the baby bettongs do if you don't take them away from the mom? Will they keep hopping in the pouch until they're too big to fit or do they stop using the pouch before that?

[@higbeythedemon]

where did you get the original bettongs from and what is causing them to become critically endangered? most the time its habitat destruction, so I'm just wondering where these guys could become established and what is being done to protect their habitat?

[@TheSnowyWolfe]

Hehe you said "dooblidoo" or however you spell it :) Did you get that from the Vlogbrothers?

[@noodletongs2664]

I had a stuffed animal just like this when I was a kid, but it was called a kangaroo rat.

[@jessan.9332]

Curious, why do you need to take them from their mother when they reach 200g? What would happen to them if they weren't removed?

[@martinzhang5676]

They need to be hand at that stage so that they become used to being handled by humans. If they are hand raised from an early age, being handled can be very stressful for them and it will make caring for them more difficult.

[@KoriC4077]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKvLmXR3e5yFsLMm44s Here is Jessie handling one that was not handled as a kit.

[@DonnaBrooks]

Martin Zhang, I think you meant to say, "If they are NOT hand-raised from an early age...." Without the "not", your sentence means exactly the opposite, and argues that hand-raising at an early age is the cause of stress and difficulty in handling them, which contradicts your first sentence. I'm just clarifying it for others reading your comment.

[@TheSH1N1GAM1]

I can't do math in my head so I always need to zero the scale with the container on it first.

[@TheSnowyWolfe]

That makes two of us, Annabelle.

[@Riffingtons]

What advantage is there to something that carries its young inside it hopping? I'd think that having to deal with the extra weight would make moving parallel to the ground more important, but I guess that's not the case for some reason?

[@emma-raescheanne1444]

yaay animals

[@higbeythedemon]

that bird needs to learn to use its inside voice XD

[@goo4two]

Hello, i think i saw one in the state forest in warburton, Victoria but am not sure if it was a bettong or something similar. Do you know if it could be one?

[@MisterTingles]

why did the funghi cross the road? to get away from the bettong.

[@davidgold3nrose]

I had to look up bettongs, but I recognised "rat kangaroos". I figured they were from Australia because they're nocturnal marsupials. But here's a question: so I know they are prevalent in Australia (The most famous being the kangaroo), but what marsupials live outside Australia?

[@rhenecejaimungal3824]

can I adopt one

[@Satelitko]

Be-tong-to-tong-tong-tong.

[@annabellebarr6248]

I just want your job.

[@MagnanimousMinotaur]

Are bettongs different from kangaroo rats?

[@MagnanimousMinotaur]

Good to know. Thanks for the response!