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- [Scott] Over at the Australian Outback
in the female exhibit,
we currently have four joeys, three males and one female.
Once the female has been bred,
she will give birth usually between 29 and 35 days.
It does vary from day to day when they actually give birth.
Belier is our female joey,
and we got a weight on her today.
She did increase from last week.
We've been keeping a closer eye on her.
As they get older,
we can start to weigh the joeys by themselves.
They start to feel a little more comfortable,
a little more independent as they get older,
so all of our joeys on exhibit right now
are between 10 1/2 months to a little over a year old,
so they're all the stage where
they're fully out of the pouch.
They will still hold on to mom for comfort.
As long as they continue to increase in weight every week,
everything is good to go,
and from there, we just make sure
they just keep increasing until they get fully grown.
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