Pocket Perch

A tree kangaroo baby – known as a joey – peeks from its mother’s pouch at the Bronx Zoo’s Jungleworld exhibit.

Native to New Guinea, Queensland and surrounding islands these relatives to kangaroos and wallabies spend most of their time climbing high in forest canopies – as their name suggests. They eat fruits, leaves insects and the occasional egg or young bird.

Though they walk awkwardly over land, once they climb into a tree, they become virtual Spidermen, leaping from branch to branch and seeming to defy gravity using their long, thick tails to balance on precarious perches.

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