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Opossums eat insects, rodents, birds, eggs, frogs, plants, fruits and grain. Some species may eat the skeletal remains of rodents and roadkill animals to fulfill their calcium requirements. [ 45 ] In captivity, opossums will eat practically anything including dog and cat food, livestock fodder and discarded human food scraps and waste.
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It is found in Bolivia, Brazil and Peru, where it inhabits the Amazon rainforest. It is omnivorous, nocturnal, and primarily nonarboreal. [1] References
A recently published set of photos on Facebook shows a terrifyingly large spider eating a possum at a cabin in Australia.
The sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) is a small, omnivorous, arboreal, and nocturnal gliding possum.The common name refers to its predilection for sugary foods such as sap and nectar and its ability to glide through the air, much like a flying squirrel. [8]
The common spotted cuscus has an unspecialised dentition, allowing it to eat a wide variety of plant products. [8] It eats the leaves of ficus, alstonia, and slonea plants, nectar, and the fruits of ficus, lithocarpus, aglia, and possibly mischocarpus and pometia plants. [9] It is also known to eat flowers, small animals, and occasionally eggs.
Family Burramyidae: pygmy possums Genus Burramys. Mountain pygmy possum (Burramys parvus) Genus Cercartetus. Long-tailed pygmy possum (Cercartetus caudatus) Southwestern pygmy possum (Cercartetus concinnus) Tasmanian pygmy possum (Cercartetus lepidus) Eastern pygmy possum (Cercartetus nanus) Family Phalangeridae: brushtail possums and cuscuses
The common opossum (Didelphis marsupialis), also called the southern or black-eared opossum [2] or gambá, and sometimes called a possum, is a marsupial species living from the northeast of Mexico to Bolivia (reaching the coast of the South Pacific Ocean to the central coast of Peru), including Trinidad and Tobago and the Windwards in the Caribbean, [2] where it is called manicou. [3]