I knew they were tiny because they are marsupials, but not that tiny. Squee!
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So I guess the marsupial pouch is really like an external womb, because that would be a fetus of any other mammal. Nature is crazy.
Yes, that’s it! They climb in there, swallow the nipple and continue to “bake in the oven.”
Sugar Gliders are tiny, they look similar in size to larva last time I saw them
(not mine this is just a picture from online. I would never recommend doing this, they likely killed it because they navigate with limited senses to travel to the nipple)
So is it just like full of shit when they are coming out?
Yeah, that’s an excellent question. It doesn’t sound like the cleanest operation.
And they probably have a nice proper fourth trimester too.
For anyone else who had no idea how marsupial fetus-babies climbed from vagina to pouch: link
Fuck knows how that evolved.