are elephants marsupials
Neither. Elephants are placental mammals, which form a different group of mammals from either the marsupials (pouched mammals) or the monotremes (egg-laying mammals). Marsupials of the World Marsupials are a type of mammal that differs from all others in that they have a marsupium (or pouch), which is what gives them their name. 2  In this pouch, which is formed by â¦.