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.

Only five possums were found, the last one in 1909.

Between me and Possum, we can find a way to do this.

She decided to play possum when he walked in the house.

That was probably a lot of money back then, Possum thought.

And now be playing possum, waiting only until their door opened?

Perhaps he had been playing possum - if so, for how long?

Possum would pay no attention to the passing of the minutes.

Ask her out on a date, as some already have, and she'll play possum.

Possum started running, but Smoke was too fast for him.

They also go by the common name of fairy possum.

One time, a possum perched on the side of a town house.

But the major studios may not be able to play possum much longer.

Or was this the possum, crossing the road to get to the other side?

"You could have seen who he was if you'd chosen not to play possum."

He appears to be really sick, not just playing possum.

"She put a possum in," one of the little girls said.

He held out the possum to her, as if she might want to reconsider.

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

"Ever have to catch a possum so you can eat?"

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

"Possum took them all to see the dollar movie and out to eat."

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

That made playing possum pretty much impossible, so I sat up and tried to take stock.

Possum had given the receptionist an out, and was getting cold feet himself.

They had their guns at the ready, in case the bear was just playing possum.

Either way, keep an eye out for alligators, opposum and bald eagle.

Mysids are also called "opposum shrimp", because of the brood pouch present in all mature females.

However, Davis says the name may have been derived from sikwa (either a hog or an opposum and vi meaning a place or an enclosure.

Herpetotherium (Pygmy opposum)

Gracile mouse opossums, excluding the fat-tailed mouse opposum, in general, have a prehensile tail that is thin and really long.

Fox and the opossum who works as a building superintendent, Kylie Sven Opposum, steal produce and poultry from the three farms.

The Brazilian gracile opossum, Gracilinanus microtarsus, is a species of small opposum from Brazil.

One specimen of Patagonian opossum was caught using a dead bird as bait; this led some researchers to believe that the Patagonian opposum lives totally on birds.

Strachey set down words for walnut, shoes and two kinds of beast, "paukauns," "mawhcasuns," "aroughcoune" and "opposum."

It is conserved in a number of mammalian genomes (human, mouse, rat, chimpanzee, dog, cow and opposum), but not in fugu, zebrafish or xenopus genomes.

The street urchins learned to regard them with respect and to attack only in sizeable numbers, engaging the two boys just long enough to steal their catch, a brace of wood pigeons or several trout, a clutch of wild duck eggs or a couple of opposum.