When wildfires spread across parts of Melbourne, Australia, the wildlife that could flee the area did, and those that could not sadly perished. With the smoke and flames burning more than 5,000 acres of land, it started to reach a residential suburb of the city.
When the flames got closer and closer to homes, a passerby saw something he could not believe: a baby kangaroo's leg poking out from the inside his mother's pouch. It was apparent to the man that while the mother was dead, her baby was not.
If that man didn't see the baby Joey, who was just four-months-old at the time, the kangaroo would have been a goner. Instead, almost like fate, that man called authorities and the baby kangaroo, now known as Blue Gum, is living safe and sound at the Wildhaven Wildlife Shelter in Victoria.
Blue Gum, presumably named after a subspecies of Eucalyptus, will stay at the shelter for about two years until he is ready to return to the wild. Rehabbers say he is doing very well and even made a new friend, a small wombat, at the 104-acre shelter.
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