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Marsupials
Comprised of 9 orders, 23 families, and around 330 species, with the exception of opossums, the majority of marsupials are found in Central and South America, Australia, and Asia. Immediately after birth the young crawl to the mother's nipples and remain attached to them while continuing their development.
859 Questions
Do numbats have unique individual markings?
Yes. The stripes on each and every numbat are as unique to the individual as fingerprints are to people.
How many types of opossums are there in north America?
There is just one species of opossum in North America, and that is the Virginia opossum.
You may be referring to the similarities between flying squirrels and marsupial gliders. Or the similarities between standards squirrels, and cuscuses of the genus Phalanger. In both cases, marsupials and placental mammals have very similar anatomies, habitats, and diets. This is due to convergent evolution: the two groups of animals are unrelated but have developed similar characteristics because they have adapted to similar environments (woodlands, in this case).
Which marsupials cannot walk backwards?
Members of the kangaroo family cannot walk backwards. This includes the larger kangaroos, wallabies, wallaroos, quokkas, pademelons and so on. On land, their legs are unable to move independently of each other, and this is necessary for walking backwards.
What diseases infect marsupials?
The Tasmanian Devil is subject to Devil Facial Tumour Disease, a fatal condition which causes cancerous tumours initially around the creature's mouth, which then spread to become quite large, affecting the whole face. It has resulted in greatly reduced numbers of Tasmanian Devils in the eastern half of the island. Currently (2008) the western half of the island's Tasmanian Devil population is still healthy and free from the disease. For more information, refer to the link below. Chlamydia psittaci, or Chlamydia, is a disease which threatens the Australian koala poopulation. It can cause conjunctivitis which can cause blindness, pneumonia, urinary tract infections and reproductive tract infections, which can cause female infertility.
Chaffinch is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.
What research is being done on antioxidants?
One study revealed that Vitamins C and E helped reduce arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) following heart transplants. Yet another study demonstrated that vitamin therapy had not effect on preventing heart disease.
Do joeys stay with their mob when they grow up?
Female joey kangaroos stay with their mob as they grow up, or they may join a new mob. There can only be one dominant male in the mob, so young male joeys have to either be prepared to fight for dominance, or leave the mob to establish their own mob.
How do platypuses move on land and lay eggs they are mammals?
Platypuses (and echidnas) are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals. Like all mammals, they feed their young on mothers' milk. The defining trait of a mammal is to have mammary glands, to produce milk for its young. The platypus produces its milk from numerous glands over its underside, unlike other mammals which have teats.
Platypuses have just one external opening, the cloaca, for both waste elimination and for reproduction. The cloaca leads to the urinary, faecal and reproductive tracks, all of which join internally, and it is the orifice by which the female monotreme lays her eggs.
As for how platypuses move on land - these animals spend more time on land than in the water. The platypus has four legs. When on land, it walks. When in water, it swims. Its feet have retractable webbing between the toes. This means it can swim effectively, but it can also dig on land because the webbing retracts to expose the sharp claws.
Did the marsupial lion have a pouch?
Most, but not all, marsupials have a pouch. The marsupial lion is now extinct but fossil evidence indicate sit did have a pouch.
Pademelons are smaller members of the kangaroo family. They move primarily by hopping on two legs.
Little is known about the marsupial lion which lived in Australia thousands of years ago. It is speculated that it was an opportunistic scavenger which ate carrion, but that it also preyed on the large, lumbering Diprotodon and Giant kangaroos.
A bandicoot's diet comprises insects, roots and corms (tubers), small invertebrates, and worms.
The diet includes adult and larval insects (especially Coleoptera, Orthoptera, and Lepidoptera), earthworms, centipedes, seeds, bulbs, tubers, and hypogeous fungal sporocarps. Small vertebrates such as lizards and mice are occasionally eaten. In garden areas, and in tropical rainforest, fallen fruit is eaten. (Animal Classification)A bandicoot's diet comprises insects, roots and corms, small invertebrates and worms.
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These little marsupials eat Insects, Worms, Plants and some times even small lizards and mice.
What aren't koalas related to bears?
because koalas are marsupials and bears are mammals
Marsupials are mammals too..But in no way related to the bear family (Ursidae)
Pademelons are small members of the kangaroo family. The word 'legal' does not apply to them, unless the question is being asked about whether they may be kept as pets. Pademelons may not be kept as pets anywhere in the world - not even Australia.
Are all marsupials endemic to Australia?
No. Whilst it is true that most species of marsupial are endemic to Australia, it is not the only continent where they are found.
Some species of marsupials are found in New Guinea, some islands of Indonesia, and many more are found in Central and South America. There is also one species of marsupial, the Opossum, in North America. Brushtail Possums and wallabies have also been introduced to New Zealand, but they are not native to the islands.
Well sugar gliders take ALOT of care and they are expensive, so you probably won't be able to have one, BUT probably maybe you will.
Did Placental mammals evolve from Marsupials OR from Reptiles?
Marsupials, because Reptiles have never been mammals and have always had their offspring in eggs outside of them.
What is a marsupial called that has a pointed nose an grey-brown fur?
This would apply to many marsupial species. An opossum is one. Potoroo: A rat Kangaroo.
Penguins are not marsupials, or even mammals. They are members of the bird family, sharing bird characteristics of laying eggs, having feathers (of sorts), and being warm-blooded vertebrates that breathe through lungs.
There is only one type of marsupial bird, and it is not a true marsupial. The Sungrebe, the world's only known "marsupial bird", is so called because almost immediately after the chicks hatch, the male places each of the two chicks in pouches under his wings and leaves the nest. However, because the young are
not fed on mothers' milk, and therefore the bird does not meet the criteria of a "mammal", it is not a true marsupial.
The plural of quoll may be either quolls or quoll. Both terms are acceptable.
What does an eastern barred bandicoot look like?
An eastern barred bandicoot has a pointed snout and large ears. Its dorsal (back) fur is dark brown, and its ventral (belly) fur is white. Two white stripes extend onto the dorsal surface, going horizontally, near the base of the tail. Its head-and-body length is about twelve and a half inches, and its tail length is about three and a half inches.
