The water opossum or yapok is a semiaquatic marsupial found along freshwater streams ranging from Mexico south to Argentina. Both males and females have pouches: the male's pouch keeps his genitalia securely enclosed while swimming; the female's pouch is water-tight to keep her young safe and dry. v.redd.it/bvg992s1d6981
Do marsupials poop and pee in their mother's pouch?
Newly discovered species of frog in Australia, the pouch or hip-pocket frog: The father sits on the eggs for about six days until the tadpoles hatch and climb into small pouches located on the adult frog's legs. The young stays there until they develop their own legs. Basically, a marsupial frog!
While evolution may have failed to give them a marsupial pouch, we can help with our tools. I wonder if rats would appreciate having one too! v.redd.it/p4q8gxs19g981
I want to create a creature that's a marsupial with no pouch. My problem is I can't explain why they would evolve that way. marsupials evolving to lose their pouches happens in real life but I couldn't find an explanation of why it happens?
I tried to find an explanation of this phenomenon and couldn't. I then came on here to ask if anyone could help and no one really could.
So if I created this thing I'd have to just handwave why it lost its pouch in the first place.
The male water opossum or yapok, a marsupial native to Central and South America, possesses a pouch like the female, but the male yapok uses it not to carry offspring but to put his genitals inside before swimming. The male does this to to prevent his genitals from getting bogged down in the weeds.
do you think marsupial could fly with a joey in a pouch or do you think that would screw up the aerodynamics too much?
This bumpy girl is a Marsupial Frog! Marsupial Frogs (Amphignathodontidae) have brood pouches on their backs! During mating the males fertilize the eggs and then push them into the female's pouch. In the pouch the eggs are in contact their mother's vascular tissue, which supplies them with oxygen
Now you too can look like a marsupial in a pouch!
Didelphis virginiana or the Virginia opossum is the only marsupial mammal found north of Mexico. Like all marsupials they Cary their young in a pouch. Unlike other wild mammals of North America, Virginia opossums are the least susceptible to rabies.
My theory is since my fursona is a marsupial, he gotta put kt tape over his pouch
Fun fact: Opossums have pouches. They are also the only marsupial found in North America and can have up to 20 joeys per litter. v.redd.it/bj873wu4i3581
Get morbidly obese, rapidly lose weight (or get lipo) so you have loose skin, and get plastic surgery to create a pouch from your belly skin. Become a marsupial.
As a fun bonus, you could make pockets on your thighs and have permanent cargo pants.
TIL that the yapok is the only marsupial where both genders have a pouch. They are semi-aquatic. Females can make theirs watertight to protect young. Males store their testes in them when swimming to protect them from becoming tangled in vegetation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat…
This little beauty is a Marsupial and is known as a "Mardo" (Antechinus flavipes). Mardos have a pouch and hop. The males mate with abandon and will usually die within 24 hours after some wild hoppy love-making.
If you had the option of having a pouch like a marsupial, would you opt in? why?
could be used for a baby, or whatever.
Anybody else think that it’s bizarre how kangaroos (and other marsupials) just have a pouch for their joeys? I love how their evolution came to evolve a bum bag on their belly purely to hold their babies.
Humans are practically marsupials. We give birth to underdeveloped offspring and carry them around in various pouches until they can walk on their own
Did you know that not only are opossums the only marsupial species in North America, but they also have pouches like their Australian relatives? v.redd.it/bj873wu4i3581
Koalas are not bears but are Marsupials. Mum raises her young on milk from nipples in her pouch. The joey is on its own by its first birthday. v.redd.it/9zpaeci3wzo51
How do marsupials keep their pouches clean?
As soon as there is a pup in the pouch of a marsupial, it will drink milk and hence defecate, right? Were does all the poop go?
Didelphis virginiana or the Virginia opossum is the only marsupial mammal found north of Mexico. Like all marsupials they Cary their young in a pouch. Unlike other wild mammals of North America, Virginia opossums are the least susceptible to rabies.
Do you think it would possible to have a marsupial species that deposits its fetuses to develop outside their body (IE like the spawn on Amphibians) rather than in pouches?
I was just rereading the Serina post that explains how the Changeling birds first evolved. Basically they started producing what were basically lava (instead of chicks) because the parents were occupying a niche that made it impossible for them to say in one place long enough to wait for a normal egg then raise the chicks.
could the same thing happen to marsupials if they need to occupy a niche where having joey in a pouch would be too inconvenient?
Unlike many marsupials, female mouse opossums do not possess a pouch to protect the young as they develop. gfycat.com/clumsydismalan…
What kind of monster are you if you don't provide your dachshund with a marsupial pouch bed
why do some marsupials lack pouches?
When I was asking about the possibility of mammals undergoing metamorphosis, and I was told some marsupials lack pouches, their babies just cling to the area around their nipples. I can't find an explanation for why that would evolve? like a pouch seems pretty useful why would you loose it?
Numbats are marsupials native to Australia that exceptionally do not have pouches to raise their young. They are mostly diurnal and mainly eat termites. This video features a breeding program for numbats and dibblers at Perth Zoo aimed at boosting wild population numbers of these endangered animals. v.redd.it/cgw2wjb5apf71
Wombat babies leave the womb and crawl into their mothers pouches when they are about the size of a jellybean, but because the pouch faces backwards, unlike other marsupials, they only have to crawl 3 inches. There they will nurse for the next 5 months. gfycat.com/DeafeningMisty…
A recently discovered species of frog in Australia, the pouched or hip-pocket frog, acts a bit like a marsupial. The father sits on the eggs for about 6 days until the tadpoles hatch and climb into small pouches located on the adult frog's legs. The young hang around until they have their own legs.
The inside of kangaroo marsupial pouch. v.redd.it/cexk7ntrivh51
If you had a taint-pouch, like a marsupial, what would you carry in it?
Though often called the koala “bear,” this cuddly animal is not a bear at all; it is a marsupial, or pouched mammal. After giving birth, a female koala carries her baby in her pouch for about six months.
A recently discovered species of frog in Australia, the pouched or hip-pocket frog, acts a bit like a marsupial. The father sits on the eggs for about 6 days until the tadpoles hatch and climb into small pouches located on the adult frog's legs. The young hang around until they have their own legs.
Marsupial babies must relieve themselves inside their mother's pouch.
How does it get cleaned out?
If humans had a marsupial-like pouch, what kind of stupid/gross/dangerous things would we do with it?
Humans are marsupials with pouches (like a kangaroo has). What’s the most impolite thing you can do to a stranger’s pouch?
Calling a marsupial's pouch a pouch sounds cute, but calling it a flesh pocket sounds horrifying.
TIL Koalas are marsupials, not bears. But its genus is Phascolarctos, is derived from the Greek words phaskolos "pouch" and arktos "bear". The name Koala comes from Aborigin name 'Gula' meaning 'no water' because they thought it survives without drinking. But they get water from the Eucalyptus tree. wikipedia.org/wiki/Koala
The Chacoan pygmy opossum is the smallest known species of didelphid. It has a head-body length of 68 mm, a tail of 55 mm and a hind foot of 11. It's a marsupial, but it doesn't have a pouch
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