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    The Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana), also known as the North American opossum, is a member of the opossum family found from southern Canada to...
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    South America. The Virginia opossum is the only species found in the United States and Canada. It is often simply referred to as an opossum, and in North America...
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    species, the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana), is the only marsupial to be found in North America, north of Mexico. The Virginia opossum has opposable...
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    with thirteen species in Central America and a single species, the Virginia opossum, inhabiting North America north of Mexico. Marsupials range in size...
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    seventeen bat species include brown bats and the Virginia big-eared bat, the state mammal. The Virginia opossum is also the only marsupial native to the United...
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    The gray four-eyed opossum (Philander opossum) is an opossum species from Central and South America, ranging from southern Mexico to Peru, Bolivia and...
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    instinctively show this behaviour when rats try to eat them. In mammals, the Virginia opossum (commonly known simply as possums) is perhaps the best known example...
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  • Heidi (May 2008 – 28 September 2011) was a Virginia opossum housed at Germany's Leipzig Zoo. In December 2010, the two-and-a-half year old, cross-eyed...
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  • Storme as Baby Brightbill. Catherine O'Hara as Pinktail, a maternal Virginia opossum who gives Roz some advice on raising Brightbill. Bill Nighy as Longneck...
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    The common opossum (Didelphis marsupialis), also called the southern or black-eared opossum or gambá, and sometimes called a possum, is a marsupial species...
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