Did you know that there are 260 different kinds of marsupials? You may be asking yourself what is a marsupial? Marsupials are furry and warm blooded mammals. They are different in one big important way. Their babies are born before they are ready to live outside their mother. The tiny new born babies crawls to a special pouch on their mother’s belly. A Joey is a baby marsupial.
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