What happens to a baby koala after it's born?

Answer 1

The first months of a young koala's life are spent entirely within the mother's pouch. Like all marsupials, they are born extremely undeveloped. After attaching their mouths to a teat within the pouch, they remain there for some months with the teat firmly swollen in their mouths, so they cannot be accidentally dislodged.

Answer 2

Immediately after birth, the young koala joey crawls to the mother's pouch, using a combination of instinct and lured by the smell of its mother's milk. Once in the pouch, it latches onto a teat which then swell in its mouth, securing it firmly in place for the next few months. The koala joey remains in the pouch for at least 7 months.

Answer 3

A koala joey spends the first few months of its life attached to a teat in its mother's pouch. This time is spent entirely within the mother's pouch, and nowhere else. Like all marsupials, koalas are born extremely undeveloped. After attaching to a teat within the pouch, the teat swells in e joey's mouth, securing it there for some months so that it cannot be accidentally dislodged.

Answer 4

The young koala joeys are born from the normal birth canal, from where they must make their journey, clinging to the mother's fur, up to the pouch. This occurs while the koalas are up in the tree. They do not give birth on the ground.

Answer 5

Female koalas bear their young in trees. These trees are eucalyptus trees in bushland of Australia.

Answer 6

Koalas are marsupials, meaning that most of them (not all) have pouches. Koalas carry their young, which is called a joey, in an external pouch positioned low down on their abdomen.

Answer 7

In its mother's pouch

Answer 8

Koalas have their babies in trees.