The kangaroo, antechinus, opossum, koala and bandicoot are some of the animals with pouches. Here’s another one, a frog.
Marsupial, generally, is a term meant for a group of mammals, which carry around their young in a pouch. Usually the young are under-developed and are protected by their mother’s pouch to survive until a certain age. The marsupial frog does the same thing. The only difference is that, the frog is an amphibian and still makes leaps like other frogs do.
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