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Their teeth, though, are not as highly adapted to this diet as other possums, and they also eat fruit, and even some invertebrates. The only exception to these general rules is the ground cuscus , which is carnivorous , and is also less arboreal than other phalangerid species. [ 3 ]
The young are then left in the den for 2–3 months before they are weaned from the mother and go off on their own. [6] [12] While in the dens both parents will care for the offspring. [6] In North Queensland the dens are made in Eucalyptus grandis trees [12] and are lined with leaves. Their total life expectancy is about six years. [12]
The species are commonly known as possums, opossums, [3] gliders, and cuscus. The common name "(o)possum" for various Phalangeriformes species derives from the creatures' resemblance to the opossums of the Americas (the term comes from Powhatan language aposoum "white animal", from Proto-Algonquian * wa·p-aʔɬemwa "white dog"). [ 4 ]
Here, a woman shows off the minuscule form of a baby pygmy possum she just rescued from a public bathroom in South Australia. The wee thing is barely the size of her thumbnail.
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]
A major factor that determines survival of young is the mother's age; there are many deaths when the mother is less than 11 months. [ 6 ] The average gestation period for the gray four-eyed opossum is 13 to 14 days, and each newborn weighs about 9 grams (0.32 oz). [ 5 ]
Can grow to as long as 3 feet and 50 pounds. Can live over 30 years. Females spawn multiple times each year, releasing between 60,000 and 1.7 million eggs during each spawn.
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