Warrnambool Wildlife Encounters welcomes Elsa – a joey with albinism
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00:00 So her parents actually only came to us this year in their normal colour, the normal colour.
00:06 And we did get informed that they might carry that trait.
00:09 So when we saw little Elsa popping out of the pouch we were very excited that she carried
00:15 on that genetic.
00:16 It's a recessive gene so it does get passed down through breeding.
00:20 But yeah, so she's a very cute little white lady for Christmas as well.
00:25 It's a white Christmas here at Warrnambool Wildlife Encounters.
00:28 It does affect their eyesight so they've got very poor eyesight and they do suffer a lot
00:33 more from things like skin cancer, sunburn and all that sort of stuff.
00:37 And obviously out in the wild far more susceptible to predation as well.
00:41 But in captivity she'll be just fine.
00:43 She's a wallaby isn't she?
00:45 She's a tamar wallaby.
00:46 Okay, right.
00:47 Yeah, so they're one of the smallest species of wallaby in Australia.
00:50 So she'll only be very small when she's grown up which is why she's so small now.
00:55 So they're about maybe 25-30cm full grown.
00:58 So very small, cute little animals.
01:00 She's absolutely charging along.
01:02 She loves her bottles and she's just full of sass.
01:06 Smaller they are the bigger attitude they've got.
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