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  2. Virginia opossum - Wikipedia

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    The Virginia opossum is the original animal named "opossum", a word which comes from Algonquian wapathemwa, meaning "white animal". Colloquially, the Virginia opossum is frequently just called a "possum". [8] The term is applied more generally to any of the other marsupials of the families Didelphidae and Caenolestidae.

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  4. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Virginia Opossum

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    The Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) is the only marsupial found in North America. A solitary and nocturnal animal about the size of a domestic cat, it is a successful opportunist and is found throughout North America from coast to coast (introduced to California in 1910), and from Central America and Mexico to southern Canada .

  5. List of didelphimorphs - Wikipedia

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    The order Didelphimorphia consists of one family, Didelphidae, which is divided into the subfamilies Caluromyinae, Glironiinae, Hyladelphinae, and Didelphinae.Caluromyinae contains 4 species in 2 genera, Glironiinae and Hyladelphinae each contain a single species, and Didelphinae contains 87 species in 14 genera, as well as the extinct red-bellied gracile opossum, which was last seen in 1962.

  6. Renovation project will expand Buttonwood Park Zoo's Animal ...

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    Animals like Odin that are already part of the zoo’s environmental education-based Animal Ambassador program that started in 2014 will be joined by new animals in the renovated Buttonwood Barn ...

  7. Meet Basil, the National Zoo's one-eyed opossum that ... - AOL

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    The National Zoo in Washington, D.C., recently welcomed a one-eyed opossum named Basil, who was rescued after being attacked and is now an ambassador for his species at the zoo.

  8. Didelphis - Wikipedia

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    The largest species, the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana), is the only marsupial to be found in North America, north of Mexico. The Virginia opossum has opposable toes on their two back feet. One of the synapomorphies of this genus is the hypertrophied spinous processes of the cervical vertebrae, which also interlock. As a result, this ...

  9. Hikers are infecting Virginia wildlife with COVID-19 ... - AOL

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    Six common wildlife species in Virginia have high rates of the virus that causes COVID-19 — a disease they likely caught from humans. The virus has been found in deer mice, Virginia opossum ...