How does a wombat care for its young?

Answer 1

A wallaby is born prematurely, so the young is cared for in the pouch for some time after birth. For a while, it is attahced to the nipple (in the pouch), but eventually detahces. As it gets bigger, it comes to leave the pouch more often until it eventually will not return. After this, it will continue to stick its head into its mother's pouch to get milk, but this habit stops after a while too. After this, the young wallaby becomes independent from its mother.

Answer 2

Male kangaroos have no part in rearing the young joeys. This task is completely undertaken by the female. Because kangaroos are marsupials, the young are born undeveloped. Baby joeys are born about 2cm long. The baby kangaroo, or joey, emerges from the birth canal, much as any mammal young does, but it is completely blind and hairless. The mother kangaroo licks a path from the birth canal to the pouch. Moving by instinct only, the tiny joey 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.

Joeys spend about 6-8 months in the mother's pouch being nursed. In the initial stages, the joey stays attached to the teat until it is ready to begin being independent. A mother kangaroo is capable of having more than one joey of different ages in the pouch at the same time, feeding on different types of milk.

Answer 3

Wallabies reproduce sexually, as do all mammals. Wallabies are also marsupials, which are pouched mammals.

As with all marsupials, wallabies give birth to embryonic young that are extremely undeveloped. These tiny newborns are blind, hairless, and about the size of a bean. When they are born, they crawl into their mother's pouch where they attach to one of the teats which swells inside the joey's mouth, ensuring it will not be dislodged when the mother moves.

wallabies usually give birth to a single baby at a time. Wallabies and kangaroos often mate the same day that they give birth, but the fertilised egg will not develop until the current joey is almost fully weaned - that is, ready to leave the pouch permanently. When the joey is evicted by the mother, the next baby moves to the pouch. Thus, female wallabies and kangaroos often spend their adult life in a permanent stage of pregnancy.

Answer 4

Wombats are marsupials and, like most marsupials, have a pouch in which the young continue to develop from a blind, hairless, bean-sized embryo into a young marsupial.

Wombats are different to kangaroos and several other pouched mammals because their pouch opens backwards, preventing dirt from getting in to the pouch when they burrow into the ground.

Here in the pouch, the wombat stays firmly attached to the mother's teat which has swelled in its mouth from the moment it crawled into the pouch from the birth canal. It feeds on mothers' milk, like other mammals.

Baby wombats, called joeys, stay in their mother's pouch for 6-9 months. The joey is fully weaned at around 12 months old.

Answer 5

Only the mother kangaroos cares for the baby kangaroo, which is known as a joey. Male kangaroos have no part in rearing the young joeys.

Because kangaroos are marsupials, the young are born extremely undeveloped, blind, hairless and about 2cm long. The baby kangaroo, or joey, emerges from the birth canal, then uses its tiny but strong claws to get to the mother's pouch. The mother kangaroo licks a path from the birth canal to the pouch. Moving by instinct only, the tiny joey 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.

Joeys spend about 6-8 months in the mother's pouch being nursed. In the initial stages, the joey stays attached to the teat until it is ready to begin being independent. A mother kangaroo is capable of having more than one joey of different ages in the pouch at the same time, feeding on different types of milk.

Answer 6

im pretty sure its raises its young in a puch like a kangeroo it chews its dads bollocks and eat it mum

Answer 7

In a pouch on the mother's tummy.