Isn’t that just known information of a marsupial though. The lifeform/joey is not fully formed enough to survive on its own. So it crawls from the birthing canal up into the pouch down and latches onto a feeding spot and forms the rest of the way there.
They are tiny as hell when it comes to sugar gliders, don’t have fur to protect themselves from the environment yet. So the mother’s usually lick their stomachs drawing a pathway for what looks like/is? a fetus still. Think smaller than a jellybean and bright red.
This is an actual answer IMO. But I don’t think most people actually just know this stuff. Someone asking a question like that in casual conversation probably could use an explanation like this.
I dunno, I think “marsupials = pouches” (and bears = no pouches) is pretty much the first (and possibly only) fact that the vast majority of people who’ve previously heard the word marsupial would be able to produce.
I’d imagine this knowledge is so common that the “college honor student” in the OP meme seems way over the top. Like how many 10 year olds haven’t heard of kangaroos and their pouches?
Isn’t that just known information of a marsupial though. The lifeform/joey is not fully formed enough to survive on its own. So it crawls from the birthing canal up into the pouch down and latches onto a feeding spot and forms the rest of the way there.
They are tiny as hell when it comes to sugar gliders, don’t have fur to protect themselves from the environment yet. So the mother’s usually lick their stomachs drawing a pathway for what looks like/is? a fetus still. Think smaller than a jellybean and bright red.
This is an actual answer IMO. But I don’t think most people actually just know this stuff. Someone asking a question like that in casual conversation probably could use an explanation like this.
I dunno, I think “marsupials = pouches” (and bears = no pouches) is pretty much the first (and possibly only) fact that the vast majority of people who’ve previously heard the word marsupial would be able to produce.
I’d imagine this knowledge is so common that the “college honor student” in the OP meme seems way over the top. Like how many 10 year olds haven’t heard of kangaroos and their pouches?