According to The Big Book of Animal Records (1985) by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor, a newborn red kangaroo is about 1/30,000th of its mother’s weight. A female kangaroo weighs 66 pounds, so her newborn baby, or joey, would weigh 0.0022 pound.
According to The Big Book of Animal Records (1985) by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor, a newborn red kangaroo is about 1/30,000th of its mother’s weight. A female kangaroo weighs 66 pounds, so her newborn baby, or joey, would weigh 0.0022 pound.