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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
What causes stress on a sugar glider?
wind
One of the biggest stresses on a sugar glider is being kept in a cage.
Sugar gliders are, essentially, wild animals. Even though they are bred in other countries to be pets, this does not breed out the natural instincts of the sugar glider to glide between tree tops and find their food in the wild.
Being mammals, bandicoots breathe via a respiratory system connecting their mouth, nose and lungs (pulmonary system).
Why do Bandicoots need a diet?
Bandicoots need a diet for the same reason that humans need a diet. If they didn't eat, they would starve to death.
How are marsupials different from other mammals?
A marsupial is a mammal, but it is different to a placental mammal in two main ways.
Marsupial young are born very undeveloped, after a short gestation period. Moving purely by instinct, the baby joey (the term for all marsupial young) makes its way to the mother's pouch, where the young joey latches onto a teat, remaining there to continue its growth and development.
Many marsupials have the mammary glands enclosed within a protective pouch. Although a mammal with a pouch is always a marsupial, not all marsupials have pouches, for example, the numbat of Western Australia. This is not necessarily a characteristic of marsupials.
Marsupials are a kind of mammal. All marsupials are mammals, but not all mammals are marsupials. Marsupials do not have advanced placentas, and have epipubic bones. Epipubic bones are bones which project forwards from the pelvis. In the case of marsupials, these bones support the female's pouch, but there are other mammals which are not marsupials which also have epipubic bones. The excretory and reproductive systems of placental mammals and marsupials are also different.
Apart from these characteristics, marsupials have a similar biology to other mammals.
Yes. All mammals, including marsupials, have the following characteristics:
- a body covering of fur, skin or hair
- suckle the young on mothers' milk
- warm-blooded vertebrates which breathe through lungs
- with the exception of platypuses and echidnas which are monotremes, or egg laying mammals, all other mammals including marsupials give birth to live young
No, they are a marsupial and not a monotreme. There are only 2 members in the monotreme category which are the echidna and the platypus.
How are baby ringtail possums born?
Like other marsupials, ringtail possum joeys are born live but very undeveloped, after a short gestation period. Despite being blind, hairless and helpless, they are able to crawl to the mother's pouch where they latch onto a teat, remaining in the pouch for several month.
Is it safe to feed your sugar glider black crickets that you find in your yard in S W Virginia?
no, the insect could have come into contact with fertilizers or insecticides.
Do bandicoots live on the shoalhaven coast?
Yes. Bandicoots live right along the eastern coast of Australia.
Tree dwelling marsupials which eat eucalypt leaves are?
A tree-dwelling marsupial which eats eucalypt leaves is a Koala.
Native to Australia, the koala - Phascolarctos cinereus- is found in coastal regions of that country, in the south and east. The koala feeds specifically on eucalyptus leaves of the subgenus Symphyomyrphus.
In addition, two other tree-dwelling marsupials eat eucalyptus leaves. Greater gliders also feed almost exclusively on eucalyptus leaves, but only of the subgenus Monocalyptus. Like the koala, the Greater Glider has a longer caecum to aid digestion of the leaves.
Ringtail possums are also capable of feeding almost exclusively on gum leaves, if they need to, but their diet is usually more varied.
More information on the koala and the Greater Glider can be found at the links below.
Quolls can be quite aggressive. As carnivorous marsupials, they need a certain degree of aggression in order to catch their prey.
What is the species of the eastern quoll?
There is a total of four quoll species in Australia. They are the northern, spotted-tailed (also known as tiger quoll), eastern and western quolls.
In addition, there are two species of quoll in New Guinea: the bronze quoll and the New Guinean quoll.
How long does a Joey feed on milk?
"Joey" is a general term referring to all marsupial young. Therefore, it would depend on the species of marsupial. Even within the commonly known kangaroo family, there are over sixty species, so there is no single answer.
For the animals most commonly recognised as kangaroos (e.g. Red kangaroos and Grey kangaroos), the average is about 7 months while they are still in the pouch. They may continue to suckle for several months longer, but are no longer dependent solely on the mother's milk.
It landes like any other plane. The flaps go down, the landing gear comes down, and it touches the ground.
To take off, there's another story completely different from landing.
What types of behavior does transactional leadership encompass?
Contingent reward --The leader uses rewards or incentives to achieve results when expectations are met. Passive management by exception --The leader uses correction or punishment
What is the marsupial with a backward pouch?
There are several marsupials with backwards-facing pouches. They include:
- wombat
- koala
- Greater bilby
- planigale
- quoll
- some species of phascogale also have a backwards facing pouch
What is the difference between a standard sugar glider and a white face blonde sugar glider?
I have two male sugar gliders. One is a standard gray and the other is a white face.
The only difference is in coloring. The white face has more white/cream color on his cheeks, belly and under his tail.
What animal's name means i don't understand?
It is a myth that the word kangaroo means "I don't know" or "I don't understand" in one of the aboriginal dialects. No animal's name has this meaning.
Do Marsupials share characteristics with other animals from other groups?
Marsupials are mammals, so share all features with other mammals. As well, they are vertebrates, so share the characteristic of having a backbone with birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians. Like birds and reptiles, mammals breathe via lungs (rather than gills), and like birds, they are warm-blooded.
Numbats shelter in hollow logs and shallow burrows in bushland (eucalyptus woodland) with sufficient grassy undergrowth to give them nesting material for their burrows, and some protection from predators.
The Sugar Glider is around 15 to 20 cm (6.3 to 7.5 inches) in length, with a tail longer than the body and almost as thick as a human thumb, and weighs between 90 and 150 grams (3 to 5.3 oz).
Most Sugar Gliders are approx. 6.3-7.5 inches in length
and Weigh approx. 100-160 grams.
16 to 21 cm (6.3 to 7.5 inches)
What is the reproductive pattern of marsupials?
Unlike mammals that use a placenta in gestation, marsupials use more of a yolk-like type of gestation (all the nutrients the embryo will need during gestation is in one attached package, instead of a constant direct supply of nutrient-rich blood from the mother), which means that the embryo will have a much shorter gestation period than a placental mammal.
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.
