Quotes About Marsupials

È qui la differenza con gli altri mammiferi: mentre nei placentati è il cucciolo che deve suggere il latte, il neonato marsupiale di questa pompa muscolare non ha affatto bisogno. E, guarda caso, è proprio per evoluzione di quei muscoli che noi placentati sviluppiamo una mimica facciale. Quella che, come insegnava Darwin, consente l'espressione delle emozioni.

It would seem that marsupials are poor imitations of full-fledged mammals. Their inadequacy gives them a certain appeal; we're touched by it.

kangaroos. They were technically nocturnal

In general, placental animals would move slower than marsupials, which can collect their young (e.g., in pouches) and continue migrating. Many placental animals need to stop and settle for a time to raise their young but, theoretically, great varieties of land animals could have gone to any region of Europe, Asia, and Africa.

It would seem that marsupials are poor imitations of full-fledged mammals. Their inadequacy gives them a certain appeal.

After people reached Australia, that continent lost its giant kangaroos, its 'marsupial lion', and other giant marsupials.

Australia / New Guinea today has no equally large mammals, in fact no mammal larger than 100-pound kangaroos. But Australia / New Guinea formerly had its own suite of diverse big mammals, including giant kangaroos, rhinolike marsupials called diprotodonts and reaching the size of a cow, and a marsupial "leopard." It also formerly had a 400-pound ostrichlike flightless bird, plus some impressively big reptiles, including a one-ton lizard, a giant python, and land-dwelling crocodiles.

The jungle had no predatory mammals, but rodents and small marsupials scurried in the underbrush.