A technique for obtaining early life history data in pouched marsupials

Abstract 10.1002/zoo.1430100111.abs Early developmental and demographic events in many marsupials occur in the mother’s pouch out of animal managers’ sight. Because pouch examination is perceived as being stressful both to animal and handler, the pouch has proven to be a formidable physical and psychological barrier to the study of early life history events in marsupials […]