SYDNEY — Wearing pink surgical gloves, animal carer Christie Jarrett gently wraps the foot of an orphaned seven-month-old kangaroo with surgical tape at a facility set up at her rural home near the Australian city of Bathurst in New South Wales (NSW).
Attacked by crows after losing his mother, the joey, an eastern grey named Andy, now stays in a cloth pouch in Jarrett’s home, where he will remain until he is strong enough to be released back into the plains.
“He had a bit of surgery and he’s doing really well now,” said Jarrett, a long-term volunteer with the country’s largest wildlife rescue organization, NSW Wildlife Information Rescue and Education Service.
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