defense mechanism against large opossums. Opossums are found in North, Central, and South America. The Virginia opossum lives in regions as far north as...

flat nose. Opossums have 50 teeth, more than any other North American land mammal, and opposable, clawless thumbs on their rear limbs. Opossums have 13 nipples...

to which most Western hemisphere opossums belong (excluding the seven species of shrew opossums). The common opossum is currently not an endangered species...

Look up opossum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Opossums are marsupials that belong to order Didelphimorphia in the Western Hemisphere. Opossum or opossom...

of age, the young opossums detach from the nipples, but they still nurse and sleep with the mother.[citation needed] The water opossum seems to have a history...

and rodents. Several opossums, such as Monodelphis, also occupy small insectivore niches. Shrew opossums (also known as rat opossums or caenolestids) are...

effective seed dispersers. Younger opossums consume smaller fruits than older opossums, so usually the adult opossums disperse larger seeds. However, proportionally...

compared to any of the other living opossums. Being a member of the Didelphidae (opossums), Patagonian opossums feed mainly on insects and fruits, yet...

marsupials in the family Didelphidae, commonly referred to as short-tailed opossums. They are found throughout South America. As of January 2019[update], the...

younger. While this condition did not affect the opossum's health in any way, mainly because opossums are nocturnal, it would nonetheless have made her...