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quokkas sacrifice their babies in order to escape predators. "The pouch is really muscular so the mum will relax it and the bub will fall out," conservation biologist Matthew Hayward from the University of Newcastle says.
The quokka, also known as the short-tailed scrub wallaby, is a small macropod about the size of a domestic cat.
They have been described as the "world's happiest animal"