Where Do Marsupials Live?
Marsupials Can Live in Any Part of the Forest Habitat, from the Trees to the Forest Floor Where, Like the Wombat, They Burrow Underground. the Virginia Opossum...
Marsupials can live in any part of the forest habitat, from the trees to the forest floor where, like the wombat, they burrow underground. The Virginia opossum is North America's only marsupial. There's an old folk tale that opossum young were born in their mother's nose, then sneezed into the pouch.
What countries have marsupials?
There are over 330 species of marsupials. Around two-thirds of them live in Australia. The other third live mostly in South America, where some interesting ones include the flipper-wearing yapok, bare-tailed woolly opossum, and don't get too excited, but there's also the gray four-eyed opossum.
Why do marsupials only live in Australia?
Why are the majority of current-day marsupials found in Australia? ... One line of thinking is that marsupial diversity is greater in Australia than in South America because there were no terrestrial placental mammals to compete with marsupials in ancient Australia.