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Waxman Staff Writer Oct 6, 2015 3:56 PM UTC Adorable photos of a four-month-old, orphaned brushtail possum joey named Bettina clutching a stuffed toy kangaroo have been shared by the Taronga Zoo in Mosman, a suburb outside of Sydney, Australia. After being found alone and dehydrated nearby, the animal is being cared for by a nurse at the zoo’s wildlife hospital, Felicity Evans, who carries “a makeshift pouch” and wakes up “in the middle of the night to bottle feed and toilet the joey,” [according to a news release](http://taronga.org.au/media/media-release/2015-10-06/orphaned-possums-get-helping-hand-taronga). Eventually, the marsupial will be slowly be reintroduced to the wild. 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