How are wombats and koalas alike?

Answer 1

Like other mammals, koalas give birth to live young, they feed their young with milk, and they are warmblooded, all defining features of Mammals. Like other mammals, they breathe air using lungs rather than gills. They also have fur, and other mammals have either bare skin, fur or hair.

Koalas, specifically, are an order of mammals known as marsupialia, or marsupials. They are mammals in every sense of the word, but they also have a pouch in which most of the development of the young joey occurs.

Answer 2

Wombats and koalas are related, as they are both marsupials of the order Diprotodontia. The koala's family, Phascolarctidae, is closest to the wombat family, Vombatidae because they are both of the sub-order Vombatiformes.

Characteristics that wombats and koalas share are:

• they both have a covering of fur
• the females have a pouch in which to raise their young joeys
• essentially both creatures are herbivorous, although the koala's diet is more restricted
• both animals have sharp claws, though the function of each is different

Answer 3

Here are 3 things Koala's share with mammals.

1: It Has Fur

2: It Reproduces

3: It Has A Backbone