Difference Between Mammal and Marsupial
Mammals and Marsupials are warm blooded vertebrates. Both of them give birth to the babies and the mothers breastfeed their young ones, they live on land and have body hair.
Mammals have back bone and they have sweat glands to regulate their body temperature, which is very important for warm blooded animals. While the baby is still in the womb it is fed through placenta, which carries nutrition from the mother’s body.
Marsupials are also members of mammal family and most of them are found in Australia. Kangaroo, Wombats, Koala and Tasmanian Devils are some of the best examples. Marsupials give birth to very young babies which are not fully developed before their birth. They remain in the pouch on the mother’s body and get their nutrition, till the time they are fully developed to lead a normal life.
The difference between mammals and marsupials are given below:
- Mammals give birth to the babies who are fully grown and developed in comparison to Marsupials, whose babies are tinier when they are born and grow and develop in the mother’s pouch outside the body of the mother.
- Mammals have single genitalia while marsupials have both, male and female sex organs.
- Mammals do not have a pouch while marsupials have it.