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  2. Opossum - Wikipedia

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    As marsupials, female opossums have a reproductive system that includes a bifurcated vagina and a divided uterus; many have a pouch. [29] The average estrous cycle of the Virginia opossum is about 28 days. [30] Opossums do possess a placenta, [31] but it is short-lived, simple in structure, and, unlike that of placental mammals, not fully ...

  3. Common opossum - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Virginia opossum - Wikipedia

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    The Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana), also known as the North American opossum, is a member of the opossum family found from southern Canada to northern Costa Rica (making it the northernmost marsupial in the world).

  5. List of didelphimorphs - Wikipedia

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    Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana). Didelphimorphia is an order of marsupial mammals.Members of this order are called didelphimorphs, or opossums.They are primarily found in South America, though some are found in Central America and Mexico and one, the Virginia opossum, ranges into the United States and Canada.

  6. Water opossum - Wikipedia

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    The water opossum (Chironectes minimus), also locally known as the yapok (/ ˈ j æ p ɒ k /), is a marsupial of the family Didelphidae. [3] It is the only monotypic species of its genus , Chironectes . [ 4 ]

  7. An opossum crashed a college football game in Texas and ...

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    The opossum was wrangled by stadium authorities before reaching the 20-yard line, but that didn’t stop it from becoming the talk of X. ... posting a photo of the marsupial with its teeth bared ...

  8. Possum - Wikipedia

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    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

  9. Phalangeriformes - Wikipedia

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    The smallest species, indeed the smallest diprotodont marsupial, is the Tasmanian pygmy possum, with an adult head-body length of 70 mm (2 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) and a weight of 10 g (3 ⁄ 8 oz). The largest are the two species of bear cuscus , which may exceed 7 kg (15 lb 7 oz).