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Opossums are an ancient species, and eat all manner of bugs, vermin and rotting vegetables. Meet the opossum, nature's friendly sanitation worker Skip to main content
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.
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. [ 58 ] [ 59 ] Research suggests that proximity to humans causes an increase in body size for opossums living in or near urban environments. [ 60 ]
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]
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
Human composting is emerging as an end-of-life alternative that is friendlier to the climate and the Earth — it is far less carbon-intensive than cremation and doesn’t use chemicals involved ...
Approximately 6% of soybeans are used directly as human food, mostly in Asia. [14] For every 100 kilograms of food made for humans from crops, 37 kilograms byproducts unsuitable for direct human consumption are generated. [15] Many countries then repurpose these human-inedible crop byproducts as livestock feed for cattle. [16]
Brown-eared woolly opossum; Bare-tailed woolly opossum; Black-shouldered opossum; Water opossum; Chacoan gracile opossum; White-eared opossum; Big-eared opossum; Guianan white-eared opossum; Common opossum; Andean white-eared opossum; Virginia opossum; Bushy-tailed opossum; Aceramarca gracile opossum; Agile gracile opossum; Wood sprite gracile ...