It's easy to ask, but it's hard to answer: Why is the mother kangaroo raising her child in her bag?

We are so familiar with the image of the kangaroo with the pre-vesicles - which have become their symbol. And although everyone knows the purpose of this bag is to raise children, but do you know why they choose to take care of such a special child?

Kangaroo is a group of marsupials of the Macropodidae family. They often live in Central and Western Australia in their favorite habitat, desert, grassland and bushland.

Their food is mainly mushrooms, plants, insects . Kangaroo mostly works at night but in the cool weather months, they can eat all day.

Every little thing about this animal is extremely interesting, but there is one characteristic that makes them different from the majority, that is the process of breeding and raising children is not like anyone. They put their children in a bag in front of their stomach.

But why is that?

To explain this behavior, we must understand the kangaroo children

Newly born babies are only as small as one black bean . It has even been noted that cases of kangaroo babies are incredibly small with the size of a grain of rice! Due to this extremely modest size, if the mother kangaroo also takes care of her child in the way other animals still do, it will encounter numerous difficulties.

Kangaroo baby at birth is extremely small, just by pea.

The size of the mother's animal compared to the young is extremely large, they are quite clumsy, so feeding the child of course is an ominous challenge. If the baby accidentally falls out, the mother kangaroo will have to abandon it because it is easy to understand: they cannot pick up the child and put it back into the bag.

In addition, the offspring are born before the body is fully developed so it is extremely weak, and almost impossible to survive in the external environment. The only parts that have been completed are the limbs.

That helps kangaroo very much because right after they are born they will have to crawl into their mother's bag, and spend the next months in this warm place.

Thanks to the instincts available, although there are no eyes yet, most of them can find their own way - only a few kangaroo children have to rely on their help.

Here, they cling to the nipples inside the bag and grow up with milk. Their muscles are not strong enough to do anything - including breastfeeding. Therefore, the nipple of a specialized maternal kangaroo is responsible for pumping food automatically.

Babies will eat, sleep and excrete in this bag. The waste can be lined in the absorbent bag always or be moved by oral mother Kangaroo cleverly.

On average after 4 months, the young had a full body of parts and a soft coat. Then they were able to stick their heads out of their pockets to see the world. But it takes up to 20 months (with children) and 2-4 years (with males), the new kangaroo is really big enough to get out of her mother's bag.

Even after being able to live independently, baby kangaroo sometimes turns around to breastfeed.