Marsupials are pouched mammals. Their young are born in an immature state after a relatively short developmental period in the mother's uterus. (This is called the gestation period.)
The newborn marsupial crawls into a pouch or onto a pouch-like area on the mother's abdomen. Here it attaches itself to one of her nipples and remains until it is well formed and has grown much larger.
There are some 250 kinds of living marsupials. These include the Australian and New Guinean insectivorous and carnivorous (insect and meat-eating) marsupials, the omniv
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