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Do male marsupials have a pouch?

Do male marsupials have a pouch?

In most marsupials, only the females have a pouch. However, males of the water opossum and the extinct tasmanian tiger (or thylacine) also have a pouch.

The males of both the thylacine and water opposum used/use their pouch to keep their genitalia from getting entangled in vegetation.

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