When Minnie Mouse's mother died, Minnie should have died, too. She was a baby kangaroo, only a few months old, living in her mother's pouch, still months away from being able to survive on her own. But Minnie was lucky. After she was rescued, she ended up in the hands of a kangaroo rescue team who hand-raised her like she was their very own.



Minnie ended up at the Kangaroo Sanctuary, in Alice Springs, Australia. Handlers there have fostered many orphaned joeys. They know what kind of special milk a joey needs when she’s three months old, and what materials make for the best surrogate pouches. In video shot last December, Minnie tumbles into one of their homemade