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A nocturnal animal (active mainly at night), the dusky caenolestid lives on trees and feeds on insects and small invertebrates and vertebrates. It occurs in alpine and páramo forests in northern and western Colombia, Ecuador, and western Venezuela. The IUCN classifies this shrew opossum as least concern.
The eyes are adapted for night vision and the ears swivel. The sugar glider has a squirrel-like body with a long, partially (weakly) [ 22 ] prehensile tail . The length from the nose to the tip of the tail is about 24–30 cm (9–12 in), and males and females weigh 140 and 115 grams (5 and 4 oz) respectively. [ 23 ]
Possum is a 2018 British psychological horror film written and directed by Matthew Holness in his feature film debut, starring Sean Harris and Alun Armstrong. It centres on a disgraced children's puppeteer who returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront trauma he suffered there.
The breeding season is between June and January. The gestation/pregnancy of a female is 18 days. [6] The litter sizes are usually one to two offspring a year. [5] The offspring will immediately crawl to the mother's marsupium and anchor itself to a teat where it will stay for about 3 months.
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The feathertail glider (Acrobates pygmaeus), also known as the pygmy gliding possum, pygmy glider, pygmy phalanger, flying phalanger and flying mouse, [3] is a species of marsupial native to eastern Australia. It is the world's smallest gliding mammal and is named for its long feather-shaped tail.
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In the Yucatán peninsula they are known in the Yucatec Mayan language as "och" [72] and they are not considered part of the regular diet by Mayan people, but still considered edible in times of famine. Opossum oil (possum grease) is high in essential fatty acids and has been used as a chest rub and a carrier for arthritis remedies given as salves.