A woman has been hand raising an orphaned baby kangaroo after rescuing her from the pouch of her dead mother.<br /><br />Tiffany Banton, 33, found the mother kangaroo lying on the side of a road after being hit by a car in December 2023, with the joey sticking out of the pouch. <br /><br />Tiffany and her daughter Maggie, seven, have been caring for the kangaroo ever since. <br /><br />Tiffany, a mother-of-three from Kangaroo Island, South Australia, said “We named her Star after the road where we found her.<br /><br />“She was just nine months old at the time and now she’s 18 months and growing strong.”
