possums
phalangeridae latin

These make it an important food plant for possums and local birds.

At which point, possums, I made my excuses and left.

By the time they are six months old, the young possums live outside the pouch.

This is because possums eat the leaves of the trees, killing them.

Adult possums are territorial and do not want to move.

Because there are no possums on the island, the native bush is lush.

Despite control efforts, possums now number about 70 million.

Sinkholes opened up all the time, and possums would eat almost anything.

The island is also home to some species of possums and lizards.

They knew that possums would eat anything, particularly if one poured bear fat over it.

Possums have been shown to eat up to 60 snails in one night.

Brushtail possums can live up to 13 years in the wild.

No evidence of the introduced possums has been found.

There were all kinds of things out here: rats, possums, snakes.

Possums and deer did the same for the forest.

All the men then turned into animals, including kangaroos, possums, fish and birds.

Possums and some other creatures evade predators by playing dead.

Small game such as birds, possums, lizards and snakes were often taken by hand.

Human possums avoid conflict by agreeing with whichever side is talking to them at the time.

Physically, they appear very similar to the pygmy possums, except for their greater size.

Otherwise, only the steady line of road-killed possums marked his way.

Possums are opportunists and will eat the eggs of native birds.

The average density in these home ranges is 0.4 possums per hectare.

Possums and wallabies were eradicated from the island in the early 1990s.

Well killing our trees is disrespectful also, and the possums started it!"

The Phalangeridae family consists of six genera and 28 species.

Spilocuscus is a genus of marsupial in the family Phalangeridae.

They are marsupials of the family Phalangeridae.

Family Phalangeridae (brushtail possums and cuscuses)

The scaly-tailed possum is a member of the family Phalangeridae, which means that it is related to cuscuses and brushtail possums.

The cuscus, family Phalangeridae, are a family of marsupials closely related to the possums of Australia.

The Talaud bear cuscus (Ailurops melanotis) is a species of marsupial in the Phalangeridae family.

Evolutionary relationships among genera of Phalangeridae (Metatheria: Diprotodontia) inferred from mitochondrial data.

The Phalangeridae are a family of nocturnal marsupials native to Australia and New Guinea, including the cuscuses, brushtail possums, and their close relatives.

Rothschild's cuscus (Phalanger rothschildi), also called the Obi Island cuscus, is a species of marsupial in the family Phalangeridae.

The Woodlark cuscus (Phalanger lullulae) is a species of marsupial in the Phalangeridae family endemic to Papua New Guinea, specifically on Madau and Woodlark Island.

It is hypothesized that the isolation of the bear cuscuses on the island of Sulawesi in the Miocene accounts for the animal's morphological divergence from the rest of the Phalangeridae family.

The ground cuscus (Phalanger gymnotis) is a marsupial from the order Diprotodontia and belongs within the family Phalangeridae, a diverse family consisting of the other cuscus species and the brushtail possums (Trichosurus spp.)

The common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula, from the Greek for "furry tailed" and the Latin for "little fox", previously in the genus Phalangista) is a nocturnal, semi-arboreal marsupial of the family Phalangeridae, it is native to Australia, and the largest of the possums.