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The kangaroo's milk is exactly what her baby needs. Over
time, as the baby grows, the proportion of fat and other nutrients
in the composition of the milk changes.
When the first baby is born and begins to nurse a second
baby kangaroo is born immediately afterwards, and it too re-
ceives precisely the kind of milk that it can digest most easily.
Then when her third baby is born, the mother begins producing
three different kinds of milk, each with different nutrients!
Each baby can easily locate the milk especially prepared for it;
there is no confusion. Clearly this feeding system is the result of
a special creation. No mother kangaroo could possibly organize
this system consciously. 22
How is it that these three different kinds of milk are deliv-
ered through three different ducts? How can an animal unknow-
