| My neighbors include a family of armadillos, a crafty old opossum, and a resourceful raccoon. |
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| Land crabs, river crayfish, opossum, agouti, and fish are caught where available. |
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| A scrawny opossum foraged along the road, scampering toward the woods when I tried to take its picture. |
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| We still got an opossum, a red kangaroo, a Bennett wallaby, too, and millipedes, and a kookaburra, whatever that is. |
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| The water opossum eats primarily crayfish, shrimp, fish, frogs, and possibly aquatic vegetation and fruit. |
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| So he sends a posse of ornery opossum lovers out into the bog for a little airboat ambush. |
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| The yapok is a long-legged opossum with a relatively broad snout, and a long, almost hairless, scaly tail except at its base. |
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| Jaw and tongue motions during suckling have been investigated in the macaque, opossum and pig. |
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| A scrawny opossum foraged along the road, scampering down the berm and toward the woods when I tried to take its picture. |
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| Others, such as the common mouse opossum, live and feed in the middle canopy or the lower regions of the trees. |
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| The murine opossum is one of 41 recognized species of mouse opossums widespread from southern Mexico to Patagonia. |
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| The gray slender mouse opossum appears highly insectivorous, feeding mostly on insects belonging to the orders Coleoptera and Orthoptera. |
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| He suggested that Robinson's mouse opossum was a major nest predator at his study site. |
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| White-tailed deer, black bear, elk, fox, opossum, raccoon, squirrel, rabbit, turkey, and pigeon were hunted for food. |
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| Litter sizes from two to seven are known, and the gray four-eyed opossum has at least two litters a year. |
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| Among the other opossum species are the tiny mouse opossums and the yapok, or water opossum, which has webbed feet and leads a semiaquatic existence. |
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| I was not rewarded because obviously the night species, opossum and others, were invisible. |
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| When an opossum took up temporary residence in the chicken coop, I was the one who pulled on work gloves, marched into the coop, scooped up the opossum, and threw it out. |
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| The land bridge allowed the South American armadillo, porcupine, opossum, and ground sloths to colonize the north, as well as the unique South American notoungulates. |
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| The mammals the researchers studied were the platypus, echidna, opossum, wallaby, hedgehog, mouse, rat, rabbit, cow, pig, bat, tree shrew, colugo, ringtail lemur, and humans. |
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| The oldest documented free-living Virginia opossum was a three-year-old male from Maryland. |
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| Raccoons in Germany, mink in Iceland, nutria in the U. S. and opossum in New Zealand are just a few examples of species that have established themselves in areas where they should not be, as a result of the fur trade. |
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| Another explanation is that the animal is based on a North American opossum. |
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| In the case of Lyme disease, strongly buffering species like the opossum are lost when forests are fragmented, but white-footed mice thrive. |
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| Marsupials include the kangaroo, the koala, the Tasmanian Devil, wallabies, bilbies, quolls, and the opossum. |
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| All but the bushy-tailed opossum have a pouch. |
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| All marsupials, including but not limited to, Tasmanian devil, bandicoot, kangaroo, wallaby, opossum, wombat, koala bear, cuscus, numbat and pigmy, sugar and greater glider. |
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| And while these dogs bond with their family and are generally eager to please, their prey drive is so strong that they just cannot contain themselves if they see a fox, opossum, or even a cat wandering within eyesight. |
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| Woolly and coarse, opossum is often used for liners and men's coats. |
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| In the deserts of the lower Sonoran zone, the mammals include the jackrabbit, kangaroo rat, squirrel, and opossum. |
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| Because early cartographers had to rely mostly on written accounts, it is no wonder they sometimes drew animals that are difficult for us to recognize today, like this opossum from a 1541 map of South America. |
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| Until the 1980s, the Virginia opossum was unknown in southern Ontario. |
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| The opossum can shed one billion sporocysts into the environment. |
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| Rural poor often ate squirrel, opossum, rabbit and other woodland animals. |
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| For instance, in North America today, the opossum, armadillo, and porcupine all trace back to ancestors that came across the land bridge from South America. |
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