Trooper’s mother was ill and stopped producing milk soon after he was born. As a result he was hand-reared from a young ‘pinkie’ joey and is therefore very receptive to human contact. He is exceptionally inquisitive and is always keen for a pat or feed and to introduce himself to guests. Trooper likes to meet and greet schools and the general public during talks and often assists keepers in our education programs.

Mrs Rex has been the mother to several joeys including Rex, Rocky, Roxy and Ricky. She is easily identified in the paddocks as she has a small tear in her ear that she arrived at Maru with.

Originally from another animal park in South Australia, Basil is a rare albino Kangaroo who has no pigmentation colouring in his skin or hair.

This big chocolate-brown coated male is everyone’s friend and would happily go home with you if he could! He was one of the original kangaroos imported from the Kangaroo Island stock, and is now a towering 6-foot-tall male.

This little wallaby was rejected by her mother. Fortunately, another mother in the same enclosure adopted her. To ease the burden of the mother wallaby of providing for and raising two joeys, Bambi was hand-raised by Maru staff. Like most Tammar Wallabies, she is very timid, but that does not keep her from being a favourite with the staff. In 2009, we were delighted to learn that she was carrying her first joey, and is now a mother!

Millie was left an orphan at a very young age and was hand-raised by staff. In 2009 she carried her first joey, fathered by the Eastern Grey Male Kangaroo ‘Gus’ who was also hand-raised by our staff.

One of the original Kangaroo Island stock introduced from another park in South Australia, Bella now has raised several joeys of her own -Garry, Barry and Larry.

Jaffa was the youngest of the original stock imported from South Australia. In 2008 she gave birth to an albino joey named ‘Topdeck’ whom she is still mothering and feeding currently.

Come visit us at Maru to meet more of our other kangaroos and wallabies!