Big cats and pit vipers often eat opossums.
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Canines, large cats, bears, Birds of Prey.. but they are amune to pit viper poison... they eat snakes!
No, male opossums do not have pouches like female opossums do. Only female opossums have pouches to carry and nurse their young.
Foxes, Raccoons and opossums will eat young turtles. A normal adult alligator snapping turtle only needs to worry about getting made into turtle soup by a human.
Opossums are sexual animals.
Opossums have a number of defence mechanisms. One of their common defenses is to "play possum", i.e. their body actually enters into an involuntary comatose-like state. As many predators like the chase involved in a kill, if there is no chase, there is no thrill, and the opossum is left undisturbed until the danger passes. Another defence is excessive drooling or dribbling, even blowing bubbles out of its nose, which makes the creature look sick and quite unappetising for a predator. Opossums can also release a most unpleasant smelling, greenish-coloured anal fluid, which is enough to turn off any predator. They also turn and face their predator with their mouth wide open, baring their teeth in a threatening manner. This is instinctive behaviour which young opossums do even before they have teeth.
Opossums have 4 feet - they are quadrupeds.
opossums are usually quiet, but they hiss when they are scared.
Opossums were hunted both for food and their skin/fur.
Opossums have been around for about 70 millions years.
Opossums are mammals: specifically, they are marsupials.
No. Opossums are found only in North and Central America.
1. Opossums are very good tree climbers. 2. Opossums belong in a family of "Didelphidae." 3. The Opossums' size is 76cm from head to tail and weighs 4-6 kg.
when the opossums live in Canada and it snows it is cold, when the opossums live in the U.S. it sometimes is cold but does not snow and it is sometimes is warm.