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  2. List of fictional marsupials - Wikipedia

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    This list of fictional marsupials is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals and is a collection of various notable marsupial characters that appear in various works of fiction. It is limited to well-referenced examples in literature , film , television , comics , animation , video games and legends .

  3. Marsupial - Wikipedia

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    Male marsupials have one to three pairs of bulbourethral glands. [33] There are no ampullae of vas deferens, seminal vesicles or coagulating glands. [34] [21] The prostate is proportionally larger in marsupials than in placentals. [8] During the breeding season, the male tammar wallaby's prostate and bulbourethral gland enlarge. However, there ...

  4. Common brushtail possum - Wikipedia

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    The common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula, from the Greek for "furry tailed" and the Latin for "little fox", previously in the genus Phalangista [4]) is a nocturnal, semiarboreal marsupial of the family Phalangeridae, native to Australia and invasive in New Zealand, and the second-largest of the possums.

  5. Northern brushtail possum - Wikipedia

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    A male northern brushtail possum eating an apple. The northern brushtail possum (Trichosurus arnhemensis) is a nocturnal marsupial inhabiting northern Australia.The northern brushtail possum is sometimes considered a species; [1] however, more often than not is considered a subspecies of the common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula arnhemensis).

  6. List of nocturnal animals - Wikipedia

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    Crepuscular, a classification of animals that are active primarily during twilight, making them similar to nocturnal animals. Diurnality, plant or animal behavior characterized by activity during the day and sleeping at night. Cathemeral, a classification of organisms with sporadic and random intervals of activity during the day or night.

  7. Phalangeridae - Wikipedia

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    The Phalangeridae are a family of mostly nocturnal marsupials native to Australia, New Guinea, and Eastern Indonesia, including the cuscuses, brushtail possums, and their close relatives. Considered a type of possum , most species are arboreal , and they inhabit a wide range of forest habitats from alpine woodland to eucalypt forest and ...

  8. Virginia opossum - Wikipedia

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    Like all female marsupials, the female's reproductive system is bifid, with two lateral vaginae, uteri, and ovaries. [45] The male's penis is also bifid, with two heads, and as is common in New World marsupials, the sperm pair up in the testes and only separate as they come close to the egg. [45] Males have three pairs of Cowper's glands. [46]

  9. Dusky antechinus - Wikipedia

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    It is mostly nocturnal but has suggested to be partly active during the day. [5] It mostly eats invertebrates , although it will occasionally devour small lizards and skinks . [ 5 ] Like all antechinuses , the dusky antechinus has a short and vigorous mating season (which occurs during winter), after which nearly all of the males die.