How does the mother koala carry her youngster after it leaves the pouch?

Answer 1

Essentially, the baby kangaroo uses instinct. When a joey is born, its mother prepares a path for it from the birth canal to the pouch by licking her fur so it lies flat and in the direction the joey must travel. This is actually not to guide the joey so much as to stop it from drying out before it reaches the pouch. The tiny joey uses its claws and front legs to clutch the mother's fur until it reaches the pouch, where it attaches to a teat, staying there for a minimum of two months.

Answer 2

Essentially, the baby koala uses instinct. The tiny, bean-sized joey (a baby koala) uses its claws and front legs to clutch the mother's fur until it reaches the pouch, where it attaches to a teat, staying there for a minimum of two months.

Answer 3

A baby wombat, which is called a joey, crawls from the birth canal to the mother's backward-facing pouch after birth, lured by the smell of its mother's milk. Although completely blind, hairless and utterly helpless, pure instinct drives the joey to make this journey.

Answer 4

It isn't. It is born via the mother's birth canal, from where it makes its way up to the mother's pouch, which it reaches by instinct. Its large nose already has a well developed sense of smell, so it is able to smell the milk in the mother's nipples within the pouch, and this draws it up to the pouch. It climbs there by clinging to the mother's fur with its tiny claws.

Answer 5

During the time after the koala joey leaves its mother's pouch but still stays with the mother, it is carried on her back. Koalas have very sharp claws which, as adults, are used to climb tall, smooth-barked trees. These same claws are very useful to and effective for the joey for clinging to its mother's back.

Answer 6

Koala joeys stay in the mother's pouch for up to seven months or so. After that, the joey clings tightly to the fur on its mother's back for around another five months, or until the next breeding season for the mother.

Answer 7

After the koala joey is old enough to leave its mother's pouch, it then spend several more months clinging to the fur on its mother's back. Although quite capable of looking after itself, the young koala does not usually leave its mother until the next breeding season begins.