Do opposums hibernate

Answer 1

No. Possums do not hibernate. They remain active through all seasons. True possums are native to Australia, New Guinea and Sulawesi, and are quite different to the North American opossum.

However, the Mountain Pygmy Possum is a tiny possum which lives in the Alpine regions of Victoria and New South Wales, and it does hibernate, for between three weeks and three months. It is the only Australian marsupial which hibernates.

Answer 2

Opossums do not hibernate and in colder climates have trouble just surviving a long frigid winter. As they are Omnivores they will eat just about anything, dead or alive. Normally nocturnal animals, they will come out during the winter to scrouge for food during the warmer pat of the day.

Answer 3

True possums do not hibernate. True possums are found in Australia, where the only hibernating marsupial is the Mountain Pygmy Possum. The Mountain Pygmy Possum hibernates for anywhere between three weeks to three months at a time, and in the middle of the winter in the snowy High country of the Australian Alps.

Answer 4

Usually in burrows (though they don't dig them theirselves).

Answer 5

An opossum sleeps about 18 hours a day.

Answer 6

No.

Answer 7

YES.