Leadbeaters Possum is found in Victoria, in Australia's south. It is the state faunal emblem. It is found in mountain ash forests in the central highlands of Victoria, north-east of Melbourne. The Leadbeaters possum nests in the hollows of old trees, preferably those in excess of 150-200 years in age.
Leadbeater's possum was chosen as the animal emblem for Victoria because it is completely unique to that state. It was also selected because by doing so, awareness was raised of the plight of these highly endangered animals.
The Leadbeaters possum eats tree sap of wattle and eucalyptus trees.
They aren't threatened, but their close cousins the Leadbeaters possum and the mahogany glider are especially threatened.
Leadbeater's Possum, the delicate native possum which is the faunal emblem of Victoria, was placed on the IUCN Red list of endangered species in 2004. Leadbeater's possum was only rediscovered in 1961 after having been thought to be extinct for fifty years.
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The possum is a mammal; specifically, it is a marsupial.
Possum.
The Leadbeaters possum is found only in Victoria, Australia. It lives almost exclusively in the central highlands of the state, within the tall ash forests above an elevation of 700m. They inhabit hollows in Mountain Ash, Alpine Ash and Shining Gum trees which are usually in excess of 150 years old.
The Leadbeater's Possum is the state faunal emblem of Victoria because it was thought to be extinct but was re-discovered in the Central Highlands of Victoria in 1961.It is the only mammal species that is endemic to Victoria - which means that it is the only mammal found in the state of Victoria alone and no other state in Australia or anywhere else in the world.
a possum does that when scared
Of the animals in the list, the possum is not a macropod.Macropods include any animals in the kangaroo family. The wallaby and pademelon are both in the kangaroo family.