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Neither. The baby kangaroo, or joey, emerges from the birth canal, much as any mammal young does, but it is completely blind and hairless. Moving by instinct only, it crawls up the mother's fur to the pouch, where it attaches to a teat. The teat then swells in the joey's mouth, securing it through all the mother's movement so it cannot be dislodged, until it has grown for several weeks.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 6y agoYes. It is very true.
However, it is more than just a matter of the kangaroo carrying its young in its pouch. The pouch is essential to the joey's survival.
Kangaroos carry their babies (joeys) in their pouch because they are marsupials. Marsupial young are born very undeveloped, and must complete most of their growth and development in the pouch. Placental mammals' young are born much more developed than marsupial joeys, which are only about the size of a bean.
After the marsupial gives birth to its undeveloped young, the joey then crawls to the mother's pouch where it latches onto a teat, which swells in its mouth, securing it tightly. The pouch acts as protection for the young joey while it continues its development.
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∙ 10y agoNo.
The birth canal is where you'd expect it to be, the difference being that the very immature little baby then has to make its way into the pouch, latch on to a nipple there, and stay there for several months to grow big enough to survive.
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∙ 13y agoKangaroo joeys develop in their mother's pouch. Male kangaroos do not have pouches.
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What is an animal with a true body cavity?
A kangaroo has a pouch
True or false a baby kangaroo is only a inch long?
A newborn kangaroo is less than an inch long.
What are babies that develop in a pouch of a mammal called?
marsupials.
Is a baby kangaroo 5cm when they are born True or false?
False. Newborn kangaroos are the size of a bean, about 2 cm in length.
How are baby kangaroos fed?
The female kangaroo feeds her joey on mothers' milk. When first born, a baby kangaroo is about 2cm in length, and completely helpless. After birth, it crawls to the mother's pouch, where it latches on to a teat which then swells in its mouth, securing it in place. Here, the joey will stay permanently attached for several months while it continues to develop. The mother's milk is specially formulated to meet the needs of the joey, and contains no lactose. Female kangaroos are able to produce three different kinds of milk to meet the different nutritional needs of the joey at different stages of its development. It is not unusual for a female kangaroo to have a newborn in its pouch, an older joey in the pouch, and an almost-weaned joey that occasionally sticks its head inside to have a drink - and to be feeding each of them a different type of milk.
Do baby kangaroos have a pouch?
No. Baby kangaroo, or joeys, are born from the mother's birth canal at the base of the tail. Although blind, hairless and completely helpless, the joey (about the size of a bean) clings to its mother's fur, making a long and arduous journey completely by instinct, up to the pouch. The mother aids this journey by licking a pathway from the birth canal to the pouch. Once there, the joey attaches its mouth to a teat, which swells in its mouth to prevent it from being accidentally dislodged. The joey is in the mother kangaroo's pouch for about eight months, depending on the species. Sometimes a mother kangaroo will have two young of two different ages in her pouch at the same time. When this happens, she is able to produce different milk for each, depending on their age. Female kangaroos are in an almost permanent state of pregnancy, but they have "embryonic diapause", meaning they can suspend the development of the next embryo until conditions are right for it to be born (e.g. plenty of food).
What kind of marsupial looks like a squirrel?
Absolutely negative. It is a rodent. A "tree rat". Marsupials have pouches where their young develop after birth. Squirrels do not. Kangaroo rats are not marsupials either. Although Margaret Thatcher has a pouch, she is not a true marsupial.
True or False A mutation is the part of a chromosome that carries information about a trait?
True
Is it true that a kangaroo does not walk behind?
Kangaroos have not been observed walking backwards.
A sensory neuron carries stimuli from central nervous system to the effector. true or false?
A sensory neuron ALWAYS carries information into the CNS. A MOTOR neuron ALWAYS carries information from the CNS to MUSCLES and other effectors. Sensory in, motor out.
What is most likely true about a structure that carries oxygen poor blood in the arm?
it carries blood toward the heart >apex<
Is it true that Selena Gomez had a baby?
No, not true.
