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1. What Eat?

2. Possums have adapted well
to the expansion of human population

3. Dense urban environments
bring an abundance

4. Of shelter as well
as food sources

5. They are also sometimes
referred to as Opossums

6.  Under a deck
 In underbrush
 hollow log

7. They are generally
NOMADIC CREATURES

8. They do not spend
much time in one place

9. Preferring to move
every three or four days

10. It may not spend more than
several nights in one location

11. They prefer to move often

12. Unless there is a great deal
of food available along with water

13. They will pad their nest
with leaves or grass

14. What Eat?

15. Possums have a very varied diet

16. They are constantly
scrounging for food

17. They do not store food in cache
locations the way that squirrels do.

18. They also do not
carry much body fat

19. Basically they will eat
whatever is available

20. Fruit
Snakes
Insects
Slugs
Eggs
What Do Possums Eat?

21. Rats & Mice
Fish
Frogs
Meat of other
dead animals
What Do Possums Eat?

22. Possums are immune
to most snake venom

23. Which is good since
snakes are on the menu.

24. In urban areas they will
forage for food

25. That consumers put out
for their pets

26. Cat food
Dog food
Birdseed

27. They have been
known to get

28. Into the garbage on
garbage night competing

29. With raccoons who also may be
in the neighborhood

30. Possums have 50 teeth

31. Most of which are for crushing
or grinding their food.

32. MARSUPIAL or MAMMAL?

33. Possums are considered
to be marsupials

34. They will carry their young
in a uterus

35. Once the babies are born
they are carried in an external pouch

36. Until they are old enough
to travel on their own

37. The kangaroo and the koala
of Australia are actually distant cousins

38. Possums are generally
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS
and will travel several
kilometers

39. While foraging
at night

40. They can climb
fences and trees

41. To get away from
predators or
to find food

42. They swim very well

43. And can swim with
their babies in their
pouch

44. The pouch closes so tightly that
they will not even get wet

45. Many people have the incorrect
belief that they hang by their tails

46. This is simply not true.

47. They are solitary animals
except during mating season.

48. A Possums front feet
have five fingers

49. While their rear feet
have four fingers

50. And an opposing thumb

51. Only humans and primates
have opposing thumbs

52. That many animals do not have.

53. Possums will play dead if
they are threatened

54. If they cannot escape

55. They will fall down and play dead

56. They stick their tongue’s out

57. They will drool

58. Excrete urine and feces
and emit a green fluid

59. From behind their tails that makes
them smell like spoiled meat.

60. Most of their predators will leave
them alone at this point

61. If you see a possum in this dead
looking state

62. Leave it alone…

63. It may actually be still alive and
will revive itself at some point

64. This is the main reason they are
called Possums

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