Hoppity-hop... OUCH

It's been an interesting couple of weeks at work... including this little roo who finds a home at the Cairns Tropical Zoo. The keepers have no idea how it happened, but she broke her leg hopping around her paddock and they brought her to us. She's actually a pademelon (say paddy melon), a small relative of the kangaroo, and she's carrying a mouse-sized joey in her pouch (the small opening you see on her belly) that was squiggling around during surgery while I placed some small pins to hold her bones in place while her fracture heals.