marsupials

     

Marsupials are mammals in which the female typically has a pouch (calle the marsupium, from which the name 'Marsupial' derives) in which it rears its young through early infancy.

Trivia about marsupials

  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew feeds a kangaroo at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney.) Found in the bush & also the zoo, the eastern gray kangaroo is Australia's most commonly seen animal in this group of mammals
  • The red kangaroo is among the largest of these pouched mammals
  • Tiger Cats & Numbats are classified as these animals, from the Latin for "pouch"
  • This group of mammals lost out to placental mammals in much of the world but hung tough in Australia
  • The name of this group of mammals comes from the Latin for "pouch"
  • Like wombats & bandicoots, possums are members of this group of about 270 species
  • Koalas & kangaroos belong to this order of mammals known for poorly developed young
  • Like Tasmanian Devils, bandicoots belong to this order of mammals
  • Dominant mammals of the Mesozoic Era, this animal order today includes wombats & wallabies