This is the adorable moment a joey takes its first tentative steps outside of its mother’s pouch before it decides that it would rather go back inside and it dives back into it head first.

The footage was shot at the Australian Reptile Park, which is a zoo located in the locality of Somersby in the Central Coast region of New South Wales, on the eastern coast of Australia.

The footage, filmed in slow motion, shows the young joey slowly emerging from its mother’s pouch before gleefully hopping around and exploring its surroundings. But after a while it seems to come to the conclusion that it would much rather be back inside its mum’s pouch and it almost dives in head first, back to the safety and warmth that the pouch provides.

In a statement sent to Clipzilla, the zoo said that the young joey has been affectionately nicknamed “jumping Jack” by the zookeepers and that this footage is going “viral” after it notched up over 250,000 views in just a few days.

They also said: “Although small, the joey is already gaining confidence, seemingly wobbly on his tiny little feet and learning to explore the Australian Reptile Park. For now, the joey still sticks closely by Mum “Joy” side but will presumably begin to adventure further away as he gets older.”

And Australian Reptile Park Director Tim Faulkner said: “I love when we see Kangaroo joeys begin to pop their heads out of the pouch, and we’ve seen a few after the past few weeks! It’s always so exciting when they take the great big leap from Mum’s pouch, is there anything cuter than the first wobbly hops of roo joey?! And Jumping Jack is certainly living up to that!”

They said that Jumping Jack is an Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus), which are a species of kangaroo from the eastern part of the country. They are the second largest and heaviest living marsupial in Australia after the red kangaroo (Osphranter rufus).

The zoo said that it was currently closed due to the coronavirus lockdown affecting Greater Sydney but they added that they are keeping busy by posting educational videos on social media and live streaming their animals online while they wait to be able to open their doors again to visitors.