Just let them live peacefully and be happy that you are one of the lucky few people to get to see one. In other words, when the baby animals are born, they are not really ready to face the world next to their moms. They have to stay inside their moms for a bit longer, inside that nice safe pouch. Of all the marsupials, possums are the only ones who have more than one or two young. Other marsupials Kangaroos, native to Australia, have baby kangaroos known as Joeys.
Kangaroos are native to the grasslands of Australia, the southern continent.
They are vegetarians and associate together in herds. They have long legs and large strong tails on which they can lean back and rest and balance their bodies. They move by hopping and can hop very fast indeed when running. There are two families of kangaroos, the red and grey. Koala bears, also native to Australia, are those cute little grey animals that live in and eat Eucalyptus tree leaves.