Show f KANGAROO KANGAROO AT BIRTH WEIGHS NINE GRAINS CHICAGO NOV 17 By A A. P. P P.- P. I I A 4 kangaroo at birth weighs about eight I or nine grains is a trifle more than an Inch long and Md and not much t thicker i keu than an ordinary lead pencil according to George F. F re Jr of ot the Chicago Zoological cal society How the baby kangaroo was born was until recently a mystery to zoologists Mr Morse said because toeing being a pouch animal the Mlle actual birth was waa to 5 I One Ono day I noticed that one of our kangaroos was acting strange strange- Jy 13 So soI 1 got th the head keeper to put it it in a a. separate used for tor th the thA observation of ot animals Mr Morse declared We watched We watched closely sely for tor fora tora a long time and finally were re rewarded rewarded rewarded re- re warded by the of a tiny thing not more than an inch long longon on ot the tail of ot the mother kangaroo It was a baby We secured it and found it weighed about nine grains It was an inch and sixteenth one-sixteenth long and not broader than a lead pencil It was waa a perfectly torme formed kangaroo with the exception of ot the hind legs logs the matured kangaroos kangaroos' powerful pow pow- erful propeller These developed I late as the baby by animal grew The front legs however were pet pei- pei formed and were used by hy bythe hythe the baby to climb back into the mothers mother's pouch where it remains f for tor or a period of seven months |