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.

Before the 2019-2020 bushfire season there was an estimated 50 million kangaroos in Australia. Based on those figures, there may only be about 500 white or albino kangaroos in Australia. 'We do get reports of white kangaroos and white wallabies maybe once a year in various parts of Australia, so it does happen but it's certainly quite rare,' Dr Eldridge said at the time. 'If they have the genes which prevent them from producing any pigment at all, then they would be albinos. 'But they may just have a mutation in the genes which produce the colour in their fur which makes them white, but they'd still have pigment in their eyes and nose and other places, so there could be two different things going on.'