Eastern Grey Kangaroo Gives Birth To Baby That Looks JUST Like His Dad

An eastern grey kangaroo has given birth to an albino baby after mating with a roo who has the rare genetic mutation. The snow white joey was born at Panorama Garden Estate on the Mornington Peninsula, south east of Melbourne, last month. Annemaree Van Rooy, the owner of the uncommon kangaroo family, said it wasn't difficult to spot the new addition to the sanctuary when he popped his head out of his mother's pouch.

The mutation means the baby kangaroo looks nothing like his mother who has dark grey and brown fur. Instead, the marsupial loses pigmentation to the hair, eyes and skin and is pure white. This is not the first time Panorama Garden Estate has welcomed albino kangaroos into the family. 'We have a mob of white kangaroos and albino kangaroos that live here on the sanctuary,' Van Rooy said. 'We got our first albino kangaroos from Border Town about eight years ago. 'There are about nine in the mob now, a combination of white and albino. They are quite rare and very distinctive.'Mammalogist Mark Eldridge told the ABC in 2017 that albino or white kangaroos occur every 50,000 to 100,000 animals.