A wild wallaby sighted in eastern Australia has a rare predicament for a marsupial mother - she is carrying twins in her pouch.
The whiptail wallaby and her identical pair of offspring have become regular visitors to a small farm near Ellesmere in Queensland state.
Scientists say it is very unusual for a wallaby, a smaller cousin of a kangaroo, to have twins, and rarer still for a growing pair to survive in the cramped confines of the mother's pouch for so long. They appear to be several months old.
Kangaroo expert Gordon Grigg, emeritus professor of zoology at the University of Queensland, said that judging from photos he had seen, the twins, which have already grown a wallaby's characteristic fur, would soon become independent of their mother.
"It's very unusual, especially that she's looked after them through to that size," Grigg said.
A wallaby has two teats in her pouch and often suckles two young at once, but the young are usually different ages: a jellybean sized new born and a sibling that has already left the pouch after five months but is not yet weaned.
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