SCIENCE
ZOOLOGY
Question
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Opposum
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Kangaroo
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Echidna
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Bats
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Detailed explanation-1: -The only marsupial anywhere in the country is the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana).
Detailed explanation-2: -The Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) is more closely related to kangaroos than to any other mammal in North America. It’s our only member of the ancient group of animals called the marsupials, or animals with pouches. Opossum is the official name.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: The opossum is the only marsupial in North America because all of its other relatives did not manage to displace the North American placental mammals in the Great American Interchange.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Virginia opossum is North America’s only marsupial. A marsupial is an animal with a pouch, like a kangaroo or a koala. The opossum has been around for at least 70 million years and is one of Earth’s oldest surviving mammals! The opossum is about the size of a large house cat.
Detailed explanation-5: -The American marsupials are now assigned to two families, the Didelphidae (the opossums), Order Didelphimorphia, which occur in both North and South America, and the Caenolestidae (the shrew opossums), Order Paucituberculata, found only in South America.