Q. What is the distinctive characteristic of marsupials?
Answer: They carry young ones in pouches
Notes: Marsupial, any of more than 250 species belonging to the infraclass Metatheria, a mammalian group characterized by premature birth and continued development of the newborn while attached to the nipples on the mother’s lower belly. The pouch—or marsupium, from which the group takes its name—is a flap of skin covering the nipples. Well-known marsupials include kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, possums, etc.

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