Marsupials Visit

Yesterday Mrs. Dally brought three animals to our class from Wildlands Conservancy.  She was teaching us about animals that live in Australia, and about animals that have pouches. An animal that has a pouch for its baby is called a marsupial.

This is an opossum. It is the only marsupial mammal that lives in North America. She can have 13 babies that grow up in her pouch, and then hang on her back.

This is a sugar glider. This marsupial mammal comes from Australia.

This is a bearded dragon. It is a reptile that lives in Australia. 

Her fur was very soft.

The opossum likes to climb trees. She can hold onto branches with her prehensile tail. 

The opossum is awake at night so it is nocturnal.

She has 50 sharp teeth.

She is an omnivore. Her favorite foods are vegetables, berries, insects, and rodents.

Her tail was hard and didn't have any fur on it.

The sugar glider can glide 150 feet from tree to tree using the wedded skin on her sides. She lives in tree cavities.

She hunts at night so she is nocturnal. She eats bugs and plants. Her fingers and toes are opposable, they work like our hands. She can hold onto things with her prehensile tail.

The bearded dragon has sharp claws on its long toes. It is also an omnivore. 

He poses in the sun to get warm. He lives in the Australian deserts. 

This lizard's tail will not grow back if it is lost.

He is awake in the day. So he is diurnal.

This echidna - a spiny anteater - did not come to school. We learned it is a marsupial mammal that lives in Australia and it lays eggs! The egg hatches in the mom's pouch and the baby grows up there.

The kangaroo has a joey in her pouch. It is the last marsupial mammal we learned about that lives in Australia. They are herbivores - they eat plants.

Me Voy!