When a joey is born, despite being tiny and undeveloped, it makes its way to the mother's pouch where it latches onto a teat. The teat swells in its mouth, securing it firmly in the pouch, and here the joey remains for many months, growing and developing. This is all that goes on in the pouch - it is a protected place where the young joey can thrive.
The female kangaroo does: her brood pouch.
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No. The kangaroo's pouch is specially designed to stretch with the growing joey.
A marsupial is an animal that has a pouch. A kangaroo has a pouch so it is considered a marsupial. A kangaroo uses the pouch to carry their young after they give birth.
The quokka is a smaller member of the kangaroo family. Its pouch is positioned on its abdomen, like that of a kangaroo.
Pouch + Jerboa = kangaroo
Pouch + Jerboa = kangaroo
A female kangaroo has just one pouch.
Marsupium is the pouch of a female marsupial.
A kangaroo's pouch is called just that: a pouch. The biological term is marsupium.
The pocket, or pouch, of a kangaroo is called a marsupium.
A kangaroo, like almost all other marsupials, has a pouch.