Solving this marsupial mystery made some users want to hop off TikTok.
A TikTok video revealing what the inside of a kangaroo’s pouch looks likes has gone viral, horrifying viewers with a gruesome sneak peek.
In the video, an animal keeper at the Animal EDventure Park & Safari in Palm Beach County, Florida is seen opening the pouch of a mother kangaroo.
The kangaroo mom, named Kalin, has her joey tucked away in what appears from the outside as a fluffy and furry little carrier.
But the shocking video shows that the inside of the kangaroo’s pouch is a red fleshy sack where the baby is hidden suckling away on their mother’s four milk ducts.
The video shared by the Floridian zoo has gathered over 70 million views and nearly 1.4 million comments as TikToker express their shock.
“Bro, I thought it was fluffy inside,” @milannak19 said echoing the majority of the comments.
“I THOUGHT IT WAS FUZZY I DIDN’T THINK IT WAS JUST A FLESH POCKET,” @honeyzombee exclaimed.
Others claimed to be “upset,” “horrified” and “traumatized” after having the video pop up on their For You Page.
“It happened so fast I couldn’t even stroll I’m traumatized,” @octarooj wrote.
Some viewers also insisted that the video “feels like an invasion of privacy.”
“Humans were never meant to see,” @danieljacobs001 insisted.
TikToker @kelzgoncrazy expressed her disbelief commenting, “there’s 1 mystery I never wanted solved…..it’s not fluffy.”
Baby kangaroos are born incredibly underdeveloped and immediately crawl into their mother’s pouch being about the size of a jellybean, according to Live Science.
The joey latches onto one of milk ducts where it stays for about three-and-a-half to four months and continues to develop before beginning to emerge and slowly exploring the world farther away from its mother.
A kangaroo’s pouch can get quite dirty as the warm temperatures can make it sweaty, the joey defecates inside for the first few months and then tracks dirt inside as it begins exploring.
To clean their pouch, the mothers stick their whole heads inside their pouches to scrape out the soil and droppings with their tongues.