Kangaroos
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- Field guideHow kangaroo pouches workThe pouch is a muscular fold of abdominal skin, not a second womb. After a short gestation, the highly undeveloped joey crawls from the birth opening to a teat, remains attached while its organs mature, and later leaves and returns while continuing to nurse.
- Field guideReading a desertA desert is not one empty surface. Washes, springs, rock faces, caves, dunes, soils, and vegetation patches create sharply different conditions, while much wildlife activity shifts with season and time of day.
- Field guideReading habitat: where to lookWildlife is not spread evenly across a landscape. Some species gather at seams while others depend on habitat interiors. Learn to read both and you stop searching at random.