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Which of the following animal mothers carries her baby in a pouch after birth?
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Kangaroos and other marsupials have a special pouch — called a marsupium — for carrying their babies, because their young are particularly small when they're born. A baby kangaroo — called a joey — is about the size of a lima bean when it's born.
As it grows, the joey begins to spend more time outside of the pouch and fully leaves the pouch of its mother at about 7 to 10 months of age. Kangaroos are marsupials – meaning that they give birth to very young babies that cannot survive outside their mothers.
On the other hand, the wolf spider mothers, who are native to Australia, carry hundreds of their offspring on their back until the spiderlings are ready to get along by themselves. They stay on their mother’s back for several days.
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