Hopping Into New Hope\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Born\u00a0in late July 2025, the male joey is the first offspring of Pearl and Tristan, first-time parents who arrived at DZCA in 2023 as part of an Association of Zoos and Aquariums\u2019 Species Survival Plan (SSP) breeding recommendation. Their pairing supports a collaborative effort among accredited zoos to maintain a healthy, genetically diverse population of Huon tree kangaroos in human care.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Native to the mountainous rainforests of Papua New Guinea, Huon tree kangaroos are uniquely adapted for life in the trees, using\u00a0their\u00a0powerful forelimbs and long tails to climb and\u00a0balance. Habitat\u00a0loss and hunting pressures have caused their wild populations to decline, making every birth\u00a0an important conservation success.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOur little joey\u00a0is doing well; we\u2019ve\u00a0been seeing him peek out\u00a0more and more\u00a0in the last week just checking things out!\u00a0Tristan and Pearl are first-time parents and this is the first tree kangaroo joey for our Zoo, so we are absolutely over the moon with excitement!\u00a0Born late July 2025, the joey is about\u00a0six months old\u00a0and will continue to hang out in mom\u2019s pouch for another couple of months before\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0big\u00a0enough to start exploring on\u00a0his\u00a0own.\u201d \u2013 Thea McCormack, Animal Care Specialist \u2013 Australasia\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hopping Into New Hope\u00a0\u00a0 Born\u00a0in late July 2025, the male joey is the first offspring of Pearl and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-452576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}