Re: Do male marsupials have pouches and/or nipples?

Dear Brendan,
     What an interesting question!  I was not sure of the answer to this 
question, so I looked it up on Encarta Encyclopedia.  I found that male 
marsupials do not have pouches or nipples.  Female marsupials only have 
special abdominal pouches.  Immediately after birth, the young enter the 
mother's abdominal pouch or they anchor themselves to a teat, or nipple, 
and stay there until they are old enough to find their own food.
                                         Jill