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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.
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 ...
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Common opossum, Didelphis marsupialis LC; Virginia opossum, Didelphis virginiana [n 1] [n 2] LC; Derby's woolly opossum, Caluromys derbianus LC; Bare-tailed woolly opossum, Caluromys philander [9] LC; Water opossum, Chironectes minimus LC; Adler's woolly mouse opossum, Marmosa adleri [9] Alston's mouse opossum, Marmosa alstoni LC and: [n 3]
You would think a possum would, you know, 'play possum' when threatened -- but this YouTube video shows that's not what happened when one possum met an unsuspecting deer. Fox News says, "The deer ...
The Virginia opossum is the only species found in the United States and Canada. It is often simply referred to as an opossum, and in North America it is commonly referred to as a possum [3] (/ ˈ p ɒ s əm /; sometimes rendered as ' possum in written form to indicate the dropped "o").
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.
Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana). Didelphimorphia is an order of marsupial mammals.Members of this order are called didelphimorphs, or opossums.They are primarily found in South America, though some are found in Central America and Mexico and one, the Virginia opossum, ranges into the United States and Canada.