Baby wallaby makes its first appearance at Woodland Park Zoo

It was born five months ago, but zoo visitors haven’t been able to spot the newborn even when it was right in front of them.

At birth, the joey (as it’s known in the marsupial world) was tiny, helpless, and undeveloped, weighed less than a gram and was roughly the size of a bean. The blind, hairless wallaby made the long trek after birth into mom’s pouch where it suckled and developed over several months.

Woodland Park staff hasn’t determined the joey’s gender yet, and now, while still developing inside mom’s pouch, it weighs just about a pound.

The yet-to-be-named baby is the first wallaby born at Woodland Park Zoo to mom Kiley, 3, and dad Maka, 2.

Kiley lives in the zoo’s Australasia exhibit, but is shy. Zoo-goers who want to catch a glimpse of the joey may have to be patient and wait for her to come out from behind her hiding spot in the bushes and visit the front of the exhibit.