Marsupials

With their eyes. ;) But their eye sight isn't very good.

Spotted-tail quolls are marsupials, so they do have a pouch. The spotted tailed quoll is the only species with a true pouch, as the other species of quoll just have folds of skin to protect the growing joeys.

Virginia Opossoms live about 2-4 years, whereas kangaroos can life up to 20 or so and Koalas live about 12 years. So it just depends. I read though that marsupials tend not to live as long as placental mammals.

Koalas are nocturnal and are more lively during the night. They sleep 16-20 hours a day. They spend the rest of their time grooming, eating, or looking for mates. They sleep so much because their diet is low in energy.

Marsupials are mostly (but not solely) found in Australia. They inhabit a variety of biomes, including rainforest, bushland, alpine regions, grassland and desert.

They are not found in marine habitats.

The primary cause of numbats being endangered is the introduction of non-native species to Australia. Introduced species such as foxes, and feral cats and dogs, pose a considerable threat to the numbat. It is a small, quite defenceless creature, only able to protect itself by hiding in hollow logs.

Another reason is habitat loss. Their habitat has been cleared for industry, agriculture and expanding human habitation.

Bushfires and changed fire regimes have also contributed to the numbats' endangerment. Bushfires destroy the numbats' habitat, including the logs in which it shelters. Numbats are not fast-moving creatures, and they cannot escape bushfires, which can move very quickly.

Eutherians, or placental mammals nurse their young in a womb. Protherians like platypus lay eggs and do not have teats but ooze milk through the skin. Marsupials only nurse the young in the body for a very short time before they are born. The progeny live in a pouch suckling for months after birth until old enough to emerge.

Although they are similar in size and somewhat in appearance, the answer is no, numbats are marsupials and squirrels are placentals.

A quoll is a carnivorous marsupial, native to Australia and New Guinea. It is a member of the group of animals known as dasyurids (carnivorous marsupials). It is a terrestrial animal, adept at climbing trees. It is cat-like in size and, because of its rounded head, small ears and long tail, has in the past has been referred to as a "native cat", though it is not related to the cat family at all.

Well, honey, a sugar glider may look like a flying squirrel, but it's actually a different critter altogether. Sugar gliders are marsupials, while squirrels are rodents. So, nope, a sugar glider is not a squirrel, but they both know how to work those cute little tails!

we have 10 of them but have never tried this,

I'm guessing that if they just touched the water for a second they could still fly out of the water but if their feathers became water logged they would surely drown.

No. Northern quolls tend to be solitary, although less so than the other three species of quoll in Australia.

The quoll is the closest relative to the Tasmanian devil. They both share the same Family - Dasyuridae, but the Tasmanian Devil is from the Genus Sarcophilus and the Eastern Quoll has the Genus Dasyurus. Both are Australia's largest carnivorous marsupials.

they are born blind because maybe because the eyes are not full developed.

The dibbler is a small, carnivorous marsupial found only in Australia. It is restricted to old-growth mallee heath in the coastal areas of southwestern Western Australia.

A sugar glider lives in forests, especially eucalyptus and acacia forests.They prefer rainforests and bushland (both wet and dry sclerophyll forest). They can adapt to cool-temperate climates, such as that found in the Tasmanian bushland, and warmer, humid bushland and rainforests of northern Australia. They are healthiest in drier eucalyptus bushland rather than moist rainforest. They prefer areas where there is a variety of Eucalypt species, and an understorey of acacias or wattles.

The platypus is nocturnal, spending most of its time foraging for food at night. It spends between 10 and 12 hours a day in the water, and most of this is done at night time. Platypuses tend to come out in e late afternoon, but they can still be seen feeding in the early morning.

Kangaroos do not need long forlimbs. Their "arms" and claws are used for grasping hold of food. When walking, kangaroos support themselves with their front legs and tail while they pull their hind legs along. Apart from that, their usual method of locomotion is hopping and bounding, and their short forelimbs are not required for that.

No marsupial is able to fly. However, there are many species of Gliders - small marsupials, similar to possums, which can glide between treetops. Varieties include the Sugar Glider, Feathertail Glider, Greater Glider, Squirrel Glider, Pygmy Glider and Yellow bellied Glider. As they launch, their forelimbs and hind limbs splay out, exposing gliding membranes which extend from the equivalent of their wrists to the knees, and allow them to glide between treetops and poles. Most species can glide up to 90 metres, while the squirrel glider has been recorded at 100m.

There is no one, specific place where the most marsupials are found in Australia. Marsupials are found in the vast plains of the outback; in the rugged Great Dividing Range in the east and south; in the coastal plains - everywhere.

The term 'marsupial' refers to an infraclass of mammals which have numerous distinguishing characteristics.

Marsupials are mammals with pouches in which they rear their young. Marsupial young are characterised by being extremely small and undeveloped at birth. At birth, they take a long, arduous journey from the birth canal, driven purely by instinct, grabbing hold of the mother marsupial's fur which she has cleaned and made easier to traverse with saliva, to reach the pouch. Upon reaching the pouch, they latch onto a teat which swells in their mouth to prevent them from being accidentally dislodged during the mother's movements. There they stay for months, to complete their development.

Not all marsupials have pouches, e.g. the numbat has a mere flap of skin, but in animals where the pouch is absent, the young are still born undeveloped, and they cling by instinct to the underside of their mother's belly, still firmly attached to teats which swell in their mouths.

Female marsupials have two vaginas, or what are called paired lateral vaginae. These are for the purpose of transporting the sperm to the womb, but there is a midline pseudovaginal canal for actually giving birth. As well as two vaginas and two uteruses, female marsupials have two fallopian tubes and two cervixes. Most male marsupials, with the exception of the largest species, the Red Kangaroo, Eastern Grey and Western Grey Kangaroos, have a "bifurcated" or two-pronged penis to accommodate the females' two vaginas.

I believe it be the fat tailed shrew.