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Are cats marsupials

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No: cats are placental mammals. Marsupials are those mammals that rear their young in pouches, for example a kangaroo.

Specifically, marsupials are characterised by bearing very undeveloped young. Not all marsupials raise their young in a pouch. the numbat of Western Australia, for example, does not have a pouch, but the undeveloped young latch onto a teat on the mother's underside, and cling to her belly with sharp claws for several months.

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No. Monkeys carry their young to term in the uterus of the mother just like humans and many other mammals. Marsupials give birth to a less developed child that remains the rest of its gestation in a pouch found at the front of the mother.

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No. Primates are placental mammals, and marsupials are a separate group of mammals.

Marsupials include kangaroos, koalas, wombats, bilbies, etc.

Primates include monkeys, chimpanzees, gorillas and the like.

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Humans do not have a pouch, so we are not marsupials. Humans do not lay eggs, so we are not monotremes. Humans, like most mammals that exist today, are placental mammals, and give birth to live young.

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No. Humans are placental mammals.

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