With white faces, naked tails and beady eyes, these critters might be mistaken for a very large rat, but they’re a much more interesting neighbour. The Virginia opossum is North America’s only ...

Raccoons and possums are often confused with one another. After all, they’re both likely to spend some time sifting through ...

Far from a moose, beaver, or polar bear, a recent study published in the journal The Canadian Field-Naturalist has found the ...

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The researchers extrapolated from this that a wild opossum could potentially eat around 5,500 ticks per week during tick ...

Unlike the deer mouse which it closely resembles, the white-footed mouse’s fur is not soft and luxuriant, and the general color of the back and sides is a reddish or orangish, not grayish, brown. A ...

These mammals represent 7 orders and 17 families. Some species, like the opossum and striped skunk, are rare and occur mostly at the periphery of the Adirondacks. Other species, such as the ...

They may look cute but possums can inflict so much damage to our native bush. I remember night after night being woken by the sound of my Jack Russell barking furiously at a possum up the old oak ...

Find out how to get rid of possums using wildlife-friendly methods. Possums, more correctly called opossums, are nocturnal critters that scavenge for insects, small rodents, and plant matter.

In the United States, white-tailed deer fed on discarded fish. Our study found brushtail possums are an important scavenging species across several Australian ecosystems. It also highlights how ...

In the United States, white-tailed deer fed on discarded fish. Our study found brushtail possums are an important scavenging species across several Australian ecosystems. It also highlights how ...

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