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The Phalangeridae are a family of mostly nocturnal marsupials native to Australia, New Guinea, and Eastern Indonesia, including the cuscuses, brushtail possums, and their close relatives. Considered a type of possum, most species are arboreal, and they inhabit a wide range of forest habitats from alpine woodland to eucalypt forest and tropical ...
Cuscus (/ ˈ k ʌ s k ʌ s / or / ˈ k uː s k uː s /) is the common name generally given to the species within the four genera of Australasian possum [1] of the family Phalangeridae with the most tropical distribution: Ailurops; Phalanger; Spilocuscus; Strigocuscus
Fox wrote her first draft for Possum Magic in 1978, during a course in children's literature at Flinders University.Over five years, nine publishers rejected the draft. When it was accepted by Omnibus Books in Adelaide they asked Fox to reduce the book, then titled Hush the Invisible Mouse, by two-thirds (the original text ran four and a half pages without illustrations) and to change the mice ...
Pygmy possums have large eyes, long ears, and curling, prehensile tails they use to climb and hols onto tree branches. In times of plenty, the base of their tails can be quite round and fat.
Aside from scaly-tailed possum, the recorded names for the species include ilangurra and yilangal (the latter by the Wunambal people of Mitchell Plateau [4]). The describing author proposed the common name scaly-tailed opossum, but gave an alternative as scaly tailed phalanger if the use of the term for the American marsupial opossum was ...
Mysida is an order of small, shrimp-like crustaceans in the malacostracan superorder Peracarida.Their common name opossum shrimps stems from the presence of a brood pouch or "marsupium" in females.
Frank Possum as Suzy Ann's husband, Joel and D.J.'s father and Billy Bob's brother-in-law; Mason Watson as Kari's Widowed Father and Sam & Ethel's Son; Harry Bear; Mya Raccoon as Joe's younger sister; Suzy Ann Possum as Billy Bob's older sister, Joel and D.J.'s mother and Frank's wife; Willie Hank "Country" Weston; Freada Dyle as Big Al's ...
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]