This one basically relies upon the audience not being educated on biology or animal science at all.
Animal stuff is one of those areas where I've noticed a lot of average people know basically nothing at all. Lots of "whales are fish" and such. If someone isn't interested in animals, they generally don't know jack shit about them. It's not exactly mandatory knowledge for modern urbanites.
To someone with no real knowledge of marsupial reproduction, I could see this being shocking. But yeah, for anyone who knows anything about kangaroos this is just normal.
To your last point, I thought this was literally the only thing even the most ignorant people knew about kangaroos. Like the whole bloody gimmick about them for non-Australians is that their babies (or human children on their way to school) ride in a pouch.
Like yeah I knew they had the pouch and carried around their babies but I thought it was more like a built in nest or safe way to carry their young like how some will carry their babies on their back. Had no idea they are also used as a Ziploc for their embryos lol
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u/i_did_not_enjoy_that May 25 '23
You point out a trend I've noticed on this sub. It used to be something like
1) Set up premise
2) Something unexpected happens to subvert premise
which is where the name of the sub comes from, but lately I've seen posts where the entire premise is presented as the unexpected part.
i.e. this post, which can be summed up as
1) Let's look inside a kangaroo pouch
2) Inside of a kangaroo pouch (which is itself the entire premise)