They generally don’t stay long enough to become fully accustomed, plus there are precautions that can be taken to keep them from becoming domesticated.

I am going to summon @anon6789@lemmy.world for help answering your question because they volunteer in wildlife rescue and are far more knowledgeable about this than me!

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anon6789 6 points 16 hours ago

We try to keep contact with them to a minimum, and not get all cuddly with them. It also helps that with us having so many volunteers, they're not getting so used to any one person's face.

With these joeys being with their momma (or a surrogate?) they're also learning wild behavior from the adult. Imprinting typically occurs during a certain window of development, and a lot of times they will limit human contact even more during that period, or we'll hide our faces/bodies during interactions if they're especially imprintable species.

Eventually they get a bit older and those instincts kick in a little harder and they will quickly start to want to have nothing to do with us and they want their own independence.

It's always a little bit of a personal bummer when they go from being cute to being wild, but it's how we know they will succeed on their own.

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ickplant 4 points 15 hours ago

Thank you so much! I always learn a lot from you, and I really appreciate you taking the time to explain.

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anon6789 2 points 14 hours ago

Always a pleasure! 😊

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ickplant 4 points 15 hours ago