What do you call a baby kangaroo?

A baby kangaroo is called a joey. The word “joey” is used for young kangaroos as well as the babies of other marsupials, including wallabies, koalas, wombats, and possums.

A newborn kangaroo is extremely small and underdeveloped when it is born. It crawls from the mother’s birth canal into her pouch, where it attaches to a teat and continues growing. After spending several months in the pouch, the joey begins to peek out and make short trips before becoming more independent.

Kangaroos are marsupials, a group of mammals whose young typically develop for part of their early life outside the womb, often in a pouch. This is why “calf,” “cub,” and “kid” are not the best answers: those terms are commonly used for the young of cattle, bears or big cats, and goats, respectively.

The term “joey” is not limited to one kangaroo species. It is a general English name for a young marsupial, although the animal’s exact development and pouch habits vary among species.