i object to this knowledge.

apparently, baby possums are called "joeys"??? like a kangaroo? is this just because they're both marsupials?

honestly, i was assuming they were called something like, i dunno, "pups," or "kits" or maybe even "pips" or "niblets." i always figured "joeys" was some weird southern-hemisphere penal-colony way of naming things or something. like, somebody off the first boat there saw a kangaroo and its kid and said, "oy, mates! now we're in aurstrehlya, we best get to namin' things, roight? whasset theh gonna be?" and then they got into a fist-fight about it and the baby kangaroo got named after the dude that lost.

i mean, a baby animal in north america just shouldn't be called a "joey." (unless it's a human animal and that's actually what the parents named him.) it sounds weird and actually like we ripped it off from down under.