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The varying geography of Texas, the second largest state, provides a large variety of habitats for mammals. The land varies from swamps , Piney Woods in the east , rocky hills and limestone karst in the central Hill Country of the Edwards Plateau , desert in the south and west , mountains in the far west (the Trans-Pecos ), and grassland ...
The black-shouldered opossum is characterized by a gray coat, gray underbelly, and broad black stripes that extend from the forefeet, meet on the shoulders, run along the midline of the back and then split into parallel stripes that run down the hind feet. Little is known of the behavior of the black-shouldered opossum. It is nocturnal and ...
The back, muzzle, sides, head, and outer part of the legs of this species is greyish-black, and darker towards face and the middle of the back (but not forming a distinct stripe like the one in Anderson's four-eyed opossum). The underside is grayish, with lighter cream colors around the base of the legs and the underside of the jaw.
Fans rallied on social media to make the opossum the new Texas Tech mascot. Team mascot the Masked Rider was reportedly horseless for Thursday's game. Even the horse's stand-in was unavailable ...
Opossums don't look inviting but their benefits far outweigh their appearance, especially if there are dead trees in your woodlands. Opossums are nature's providers: Gentle marsupials don't get ...
The common opossum (Didelphis marsupialis), also called the southern or black-eared opossum [2] or gambá, and sometimes called a possum, is a marsupial species living from the northeast of Mexico to Bolivia (reaching the coast of the South Pacific Ocean to the central coast of Peru), including Trinidad and Tobago and the Windwards in the Caribbean, [2] where it is called manicou. [3]
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