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The Virginia opossum is North America's only
marsupial. A marsupial is an animal with a pouch, like a
kangaroo or a koala. The opossum has been around for at least 70 million years
and is one of Earth's oldest surviving mammals!
The opossum is about the size of a large house cat. It has a triangular head and a long pointed nose. It has grayish fur everywhere but on its ears, feet and tail. Its tail is prehensile. A prehensile tail is adapted for grasping and wrapping around things like tree limbs. The opossum can hang from its tail for a short time. Some people think opossums hang from their tails and sleep. They don't. Their tails aren't strong enough to hold them for that long!
The opossum has opposable hallux. A hallux is like a thumb. The opossum's "thumbs" are on its rear feet. The hallux helps it grasp branches when it climbs.
The opossum doesn't hibernate in the winter. It will often hole up during very cold weather because it runs the risk of getting frostbite on its hairless ears, tail and toes.
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The Virginia opossum can be found in most of the United
States east of the Rocky Mountains and on the West Coast. It is also found in
Mexico, Central America and in British Columbia, Canada.
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An Virginia opossum female may have as many as 25
babies, but she usually will have between seven to eight. The reason opossums
have so many babies to insure that some of them survive. Like most marsupials,
opossums are very small when they are born - about the size of a navy bean.
The babies climb up the mother's fur and into her pouch where they find a teat. Some babies will not find their way to the pouch and will die. If they make it to the pouch, only babies who find one of the thirteen teats will survive. They will stay in the pouch and suckle for 55-60 days. Then they will move out of the pouch and spend another four to six weeks on their mother's back. In some parts of their range, females will have three litters a year.
The name 'opossum' was first used in western culture by Captain John Smith in
1608. It comes from the Algonquin name 'apasum', which means
'white animal.'
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The Virginia opossum is nocturnal and uses its keen
sense of smell to locate food. It is omnivorous and eats just
about anything, including lots of different plants and animals like fruits,
insects, and other small animals. Sometimes, it eats garbage and carrion.
Carrion is dead animals. Because so much carrion is roadkill, opossums are often
killed by cars while looking for food on roadways.
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