99. True Facts About Marsupials Question Preview (ID: 50720)


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Marsupials split off our Euthereon ancestors about 160 million years ago.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

Marsupials lack the ability to grow________________.
a) their babies 9 months
b) a placenta
c) breast and milk
d) normal length front legs

Marsupial babies “emerge” after only ________________.
a) seven weeks
b) seven months
c) seven years
d) nine months

Kangaroo babies are “born” ______________.
a) hairless
b) small
c) without a way to crawl
d) blind

Kangaroo babies may be “born’ blind but they have fully functioning front limbs that they use to crawl up to the mother's pouch.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

Once the baby kangaroo gets to the mother's pouch, it latches onto the nipple, and must stay attached for_______________.
a) one year
b) one hundred days
c) three hundred days
d) nine months

Tasmanian Devils belong to the marsupial family and live in ______________.
a) oceans
b) deserts
c) trees
d) Australia

The wombat is a marsupial, much like the kangaroo. However; the wombat pouch is_______________________.
a) on its back
b) forward facing
c) rear facing
d)

The pouch of the wombat faces reverse because they live in burrows and like to dig.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

The koala bear is also a marsupial and lives primarily ____________.
a) on the ground
b) in burrows
c) in trees
d) in the water

The koala eats almost exclusively leaves from the eucalyptus tree.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

Koala’s seem happy to hang out in the trees and sleep. Their brains are the __________________.
a) extremely developed
b) mostly underdeveloped
c) simple
d) slightly developed

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