#1. How does the baby kangaroo get IN the pouch in the first place? Does male kangaroo make love to the pouch?
#2. Has ANYONE seen the inside of the pouch? Is it nice at least?
#3. Can the female kangaroo kick her baby out at any time? You know, if he's fooling around too much... can she lift him out of there until he behaves?
2007-03-15 00:13:24 · 7 answers · asked by justicespeaks321 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
No need to answer your question about how a joey gets into the pouch. The previous answers have that covered. Except to add that when born at about 30 days, they are about the size of a jelly bean. And that kangaroos grow more from birth to adulthood than any other mammal. Yes, a kangaroo can kick her joey out of the pouch for many reasons. She can toss them out to get a break. But also, a roo will throw her joey if she is threatened or if she can't find enough to eat. Interestingly, some species of kangaroos are capable of diapause. Which basically means, that while they have a joey in the pouch they have a fertilized embryo just waiting. Once the pouch joey is gone, for whatever reason, she allows the embryo to begin to develope. So, a kangaroo can have one joey at foot, another in the pouch, and another just waiting in a sort of suspended animation. I have pulled joeys from roadkill mum's pouches many times, and also have a couple of pet roos that allow me to inspect their pouches. It's furless, moist and sticky, and very warm. not a particularly nice place to be unless of course you are a joey.
2007-03-15 21:22:56 · answer #1 · answered by PJJ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kangaroo Fetus Pouch
2016-12-17 11:27:47 · answer #2 · answered by benedith 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A baby kangaroo gets in the pouch by climbing from the uterus of the female parent kangaroo. The pouch is externally located with respect to the uterus of the mother. So there is no connection, like a tube or something, that the baby kangaroo would pass to go into the pouch. The baby should leave the uterus and go the external environment and climb and get into the pouch. And it is a fact that "baby" kangaroos are driven out of the uterus while they are still premature (fetus). They live and develop completely inside the pouch of their mother.
2007-03-15 00:24:38 · answer #3 · answered by TheGreatThinker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They particular are, yet basically the ladies have them, you already know. the recent-born 'roo is barely approximately an inch long and is amazingly under-more advantageous. seems no longer something like a kangaroo in any respect, rather. It climbs up and into the pouch the place it latches directly to a teat and starts off feeding, and it keeps to be in that pouch for quite a few months. The pouch protects the Joey (youthful kangaroo) from the climate and provides it a secure place the place predators won't have the ability to get at it on a similar time because it rather is starting to be to a length the place it could get around in standard kangaroo style. it rather is a large equipment and works okay :)
2016-10-18 10:40:10 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kangaroos have developed a number of adaptations to a dry, infertile continent and highly variable climate. As with all marsupials, the young are born at a very early stage of development – after a gestation of 31–36 days. At this stage, only the forelimbs are somewhat developed, to allow the newborn to climb to the pouch and attach to a teat. In comparison, a human embryo at a similar stage of development would be about seven weeks old, and premature babies born at less than 23 weeks are usually not mature enough to survive. The joey will usually stay in the pouch for about nine months (180–320 days for the Western Grey) before starting to leave the pouch for small periods of time. It is usually fed by its mother until reaching 18 months.
2007-03-15 00:18:42 · answer #5 · answered by faiza_t 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
#1 -the baby kangaroo gets in the pouch normally by jumping in...it is only used to keep them warm and not to keep them away from the world till they grow up get it?
#2 -yes...the pouch is filled with fur and it is a great temperature stabilizer.it is not very good for a human as the kangaroo could murder u for tht!
#3She can but the baby kangaroos are wise enough to controll themselves as the sign of appreciation.And no they cant fool around were talkin bout baby kangaroos not baby bears.
2007-03-15 00:20:08 · answer #6 · answered by -N!k0¬ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when the kangaroo gets born its the size of a mouse and it crawles over the mothers body to get in to the pouch ,because it is warm and the nipples are there for food
2007-03-15 12:29:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋