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Like raccoons, opossums can be found in urban environments, where they eat pet food, rotten fruit, and human garbage. They also are considered a common predator of poultry farming in North America. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] Research suggests that proximity to humans causes an increase in body size for opossums living in or near urban environments. [ 61 ]
In captivity, opossums will eat practically anything including dog and cat food, livestock fodder and discarded human food scraps and waste. Many large opossums (Didelphini) are immune to the venom of rattlesnakes and pit vipers ( Crotalinae ) and regularly prey upon these snakes. [ 46 ]
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]
In some mainland states, possum trapping is permitted when attempting to evict possums from human residences (e.g. roofs), but possums must be released after dusk within 24 hours of capture, no more than 50 m from the trapping site. In some states, e.g. Victoria, trapped possums may be taken to registered veterinarians to be killed. [28]
Virginia opossum, native to North America; White-eared opossum, native to South America; Phalangeriformes, also called (o)possums, any of a number of arboreal marsupial species native to Australia, New Guinea, and Sulawesi Common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula), a common possum in Australian urban areas, invasive in New Zealand
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The dusky caenolestid is characterized by a dark brown coat with a lighter underbelly, soft and thick fur, and a loosely haired tail. The head-and-body length is between 9.3 and 13.5 centimetres (3.7 and 5.3 in), the tail measures 9.3 to 12.7 centimetres (3.7 to 5.0 in) and hindfeet are 2.2 centimetres (0.87 in) long.
The tail makes up around 258.5 mm (10.18 in) of this length. [4] This species closely resembles the gray four-eyed opossum , but is darker overall, with a usually darker tail. Populations in Central America have a lighter-colored tip of the tail, [ 8 ] similar to most Philander opossums, but populations in the southern part of the range have a ...