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Acclaimed Sydney
science and wildlife photographer Jason Edwards captured
the endearing moment after the mother allowed him to
push a camera into her pouch - but only because she
trusted humans.
Mr Edwards was talking with a
researcher in the Sturt national park in north-west New
South Wales when she mentioned that a female red
kangaroo she had hand-raised years earlier before
releasing her had returned to the fold.
'The
researcher had raised the orphaned baby after its mother
had been killed by a car,' said Mr Edwards. 'The
researcher let the 'roo go back into the bush five or
six years before, and so it had become a wild red
kangaroo,' he told Sydney's Daily
Telegraph.
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'She must have had good memories
of being raised because that's a rare thing for a mother
with a young Joey in her pouch,' said 40-year-old Mr
Edwards. When he believed he had won the confidence of
the mother, he decided he was close enough to try to
take a picture of the baby in the pouch.
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