| Phalangers, more commonly known as possums and cuscuses, are marsupials but with a vague resemblance to some monkeys. |
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| Several of the early timber splitters regularly hunted kangaroos or possums to solve this problem. |
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| However, there are no fossils of animals which appear to be intermediate between possums and kangaroos. |
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| Maybe you would see koalas, wombats, echidnas, brush tail and ring tail possums and emus if you're lucky. |
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| Common ringtail possums are strictly nocturnal so food was offered at 1800 and removed between 0500 and 0800 the next day. |
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| In this study common ringtail possums appear to show poor regulatory ability when feeding on foliage diets. |
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| Are you talking about macropods in general like wallabies, the kangaroos as well as the possums or just the Brush-tails in particular? |
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| Burrows are also often shared with other mammals such as rabbits, skunks and possums. |
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| Brushtail possums, previously unsighted, were recorded in significant numbers. |
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| Native to Australia, where they are now protected, brush-tailed possums were first introduced to New Zealand in 1837 to jump-start the fur trade. |
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| Deny's precise data contributed substantially to knowledge of bush rats, pygmy possums, and other small creatures which shared his home. |
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| Other than possums we were surrounded by weird, long legged, fat squawky birds, and the odd giant cockroach and killer crocodile. |
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| They have been found eating gray squirrels, possums, black rats, and house wrens. |
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| Rats, stoats, ferrets, cats, and possums have decimated native animals that were unaccustomed to mammalian predators. |
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| In addition to the birds, there are numerous stoats, weasels, possums, and other things there. |
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| We actually want to get rid of weasels, stoats, and possums so that the beautiful birdlife of this country can flourish. |
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| You could have possums, chamois, ferrets, stoats, flopsy bunnykins and even the common cat. |
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| For the life of me, I can't find it in my heart to loathe rabbits the way I do other pests like possums and stoats. |
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| The main predators which are depleting the bird population in native forest are possums, stoats, rats and mice. |
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| The Plaintiff has a licence to take and hold brush tail possums from the Department of Parks Wildlife and Heritage in Tasmania. |
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| It is what we, as carers of koalas, birds, possums, macropods and other wildlife carers are trained to do. |
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| The challenge, therefore, was to vaccinate the nocturnal, tree-dwelling possums. |
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| We also have bandicoots, goannas, wallabies, pademelons, frill-necked lizards, possums and more. |
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| For many years the island's white beaches were stained with the blood of tens of thousands of whales, seals, kangaroos, wallabies and possums. |
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| There are a variety of possums, early kangaroos, koalas, wombats and quolls, as well as marsupial groups that are now completely extinct. |
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| Also look for fig parrots and bumpy satinash which produces big white and golden flowers right down the trunk to ground level, providing nectar for pygmy possums at night. |
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| The 17 hectare nature protects eight hectares of undisturbed rainforest, which is home to pademelons, brush turkeys, water rats and possums that can be seen on walks. |
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| But the reporter's calls obviously stirred up the somnolent possums within Labor and alerted government people to a delicious political opportunity waiting to be had. |
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| Cats, rats, stoats, possums, and ferrets have had drastic effects on native plants and bird species, many of which are flightless and have few defenses against the invaders. |
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| Potential mammalian nest predators such as common brush-tailed possums and house mice were present in all plots, but the dominant nest predators always were birds. |
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| The sugar glider is one of a number of volplaning possums in Australia. |
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| It is home to possums, pelicans, the duck-billed platypus, the kookaburra, kangaroos and wombats, to name just those he found for us during our adventure into paradise. |
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| They provided much needed help in capture of ringtail possums. |
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| We've got tiny little radios that we can put on the honey possums now. |
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| City visitors delighted at seeing lorikeets and possums in Brisbane gardens and other cities envied Brisbane's title of the world's most biodiverse city, he says. |
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| Like these bats, honey possums feed by probing flowers with their tongues. |
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| One unforgettable night, I shine a torch high up into the gum tree of our back yard and see, perched there, two tiny Leadbeater possums, pink noses twitching. |
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| From native pygmy possums to sugar gliders, we quite simply love our natural world. |
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| If critters such as armadillos and possums are digging up the landscape, that's a sign that grub worms and cutworms have infested the lawn. |
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| On a nocturnal visit, you could even run into animals such as pademelons, wallabies and possums. |
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| Brush-tailed possums from Tasmania were introduced into New Zealand to establish a new species of fur-bearing animals. |
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| By contrast, other mammals said to fly, such as flying squirrels, gliding possums, and colugos, can only glide for short distances. |
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| Many arboreal species, such as tree porcupines, silky anteaters, spider monkeys, and possums, use prehensile tails to grasp branches. |
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| Experimental infection of Australian brushtail possums, Trichosurus vulpecula, with Ross River and Barmah Forest viruses by use of a natural mosquito vector system. |
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| Research to help control the disease targets wild boars in Spain, brushtail possums in New Zealand, and badgers in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. |
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| Around 40 bilbies and 15 possums have been released in Western Australia's biggest native fauna release project to restore wildlife and healthy ecosystems in the rangelands. |
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| Possums can munch half a pound of foliage a day and prey on the eggs and chicks of endangered birds like the kokako, kereru, and kiwi. |
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