Possums

Young opossums are weaned between 70 and 125 days and will then leave their mother's pouch.

If you are talking about Australian Possums then they sleep in hollow trees, 'Possum Boxes' or your roof. Possum Boxes can be made by you out of simple timber, any type scrap or new. You can find out more and get templates on council sites as they try to promote native species rather than getting an exterminator to come and relocate it. If you do have a possum in your roof there are ways to get 'rid' of it without the added cost of an exterminator. Eg, You find the gap in your roof and buy a one-way door. Then you make/buy a possum box and put it in a nearby tree with some apple on/in it. The possum will go in the box and have a look, and when it tries to return home it can't (a bit cruel but less stressful than relocation)! It should then go and live in your box. MAKE SURE that you: block up ALL holes in your roof during the day and MAKE SURE the box is high enough your cat/dog and other peoples cats/dogs cannot reach the box (especially dogs, cat's won't attack them but they will torment them, my cat's do)!

It depends on the species. Some Australian possums, such as the various species of gliders, have semi-prehensile tails, and their tails are used to help them balance.

Others, such as the Ringtail and Common Brushtail possum, are considered to have more prehensile tails, using their tail to grasp cables and branches.

They always get hit by cars in the night and they like trash cans.

Highly unlikely.Many possum species are extremely adaptable, and it can be imagined that they will be one of the last species to ever become extinct. Some varieties are threatened, particularly some of the gliders and the pygmy possums, but other varieties are prolific. The White Possum is one that is believed to have become extinct. It used to live in Queensland's Daintree rainforest, but increasing temperatures seem to have proven too much for it to be able to survive.

This is because they spread the disease Btb to farm animals making them sick and causing a reduction in stock numbers and therefore a reduction in profits. They also eat native trees and birds eggs.

There is no particular name for a female possum.

I catch mine with a have a hart trap. You can find have a harts at any well stocked feed and grain supply store.

If your thinking of eating them, I recommend a .22 to the head, and remember to remove the glands under the arms and trim as much fat as possible, and NEVER EAT ONE from a CITY. Country only as the city ones can get into garbage and it really reflects in the meat and can be quite nasty.

An opossum does not have wings, and neither does a possum. The only truly flying mammal is a bat.

To make other little possums, eat everything, make possum grease for Arthritis, and possum pie.

Pygmy marmosets, also known as the pocket monkey, make many different sounds. They use their voice to talk among themselves and use a variety of sounds like clicking and screeching to communicate.

Sugar Gliders have 7 sub-species. This includes Petaurus Breviceps Breviceps, Petaurus Breviceps Longicaudatus, Petaurus Breviceps Ariel, Petaurus Breviceps Papuanus, Petaurus Breviceps Tafa, Petaurus Breviceps Flavidus, and Petaurus Breviceps Biacensis.

The Opossum is North America's only Marsupial (an animal which carries its young in a pouch). A raccoon is more related to canines and bears, while an Opossum is related to Koalas and Kangaroos and Brushtails. The raccoon is about the size of a cat, with dark mask over its eyes, and pointy ears, while the Opossum is the same size, but looks like a large grey, fuzzy rat, with a pink nose, a white face, and rounded ears like a mouse.

Yes, possums eat bees if they belong to insectivorous marsupial species even though no, they do not if they number among the world's herbivorous or nectarivorous mammals. For example, the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) is not only an insect-eater but also an everything-eater (omnivore) of carrion and of birds, earthworm, frogs, fruits, maggots, mushrooms, snakes, ticks and vegetables. In contrast, the honey possum (Tarsipes rostratus) of southwestern Western Australia survives exclusively upon nectar and upon pollen.

Due to the fact that fresh is always better than frozen, I recommend that you visit Australia or New Zealand to obtain your culinary experiment. There are no possums living in the wild in North America. Once cleaned and dressed out, cube the meat and boil it. That's the easiest method of cooking. Some Americans still confuse 'Opossums' with 'Possums', so I have listed my Wikipedia sources below. Bon appetit!

Fish in the Smamp eat algae or water lilly. Any plant on water!

No. True possums, marsupials of Australia, do not eat chickens' eggs.

However, the North American Virginia opossum, the only marsupial in North America, is omnivorous and will eat chicken and other bird eggs when available to them.

Yes.

Possums will normally eat small avocados, I have two avocado trees in my backyard; and I can see the small avocados dissapearing from the trees. I have also seen possums at night at the driveway of my house. My yard-keeper showed me a path in the lawn by the fence where they walk at night; he agrees that the possums are the ones eating the small avocados.

A pygmy possum is a tiny marsupial of Australia and, just like its name suggests, like a miniature possum, ranging from 7-11 cm in head-body length. It has a long, curling tail and large black eyes.

Most pygmy possums are grey with paler fur underneath. However, the Southwestern Pygmy Possum, also known as the Western Pygmy Possum, is different to its eastern cousins. It is a bright cinnamon colour.

To find out more about pygmy possums and to see pictures, click on the related link below.

We had the same problem a few years ago. I enjoyed hearing them run around, but did not enjoy their mess!! We first made sure that the babies were big enough to live on their own by placing a 2 x 4 from the ground to the roof. Sure enough, the little ones eventually began to use it in order to get in and out. One caution. Getting them all to leave at the same time doesn't happen. Plus, when we did think they were all out at one point and we took the board down, the mother got back in the babies ran around like chickens with their heads cut off. One actually jumped onto my pants leg and climbed up onto my head trying frantically to get back to Mom. We put the board back up.

Sooooo, how did we get rid of the uninvited freeloaders??

We hired a professional with 2 or 3 Have-a-heart traps. These were secured to our roof and around the property. They do not hurt the animals, but they do allow you to catch them. Once we saw that we had one, we called the professional who came and picked up the cage and brought the critter about 30 miles away to a heavily wooded area. Each new animal we caught was released to the same spot 30 miles away. Soon, we had no more pests.

Try the Have-a-Heart traps as long as the babies are big enough to survive out of the nest.

I had flying squirrels in the space between my 1st & 2nd floor. They entered from the roof to the gutter and into the covered porch and into the space between the floors. They nested and had a litter. They would play all night running around and had a store of nuts and chomped on them everynight above our bedroom. Well they were cute so I got a harmless cage trap to catch them but they were so light they couldn't set it off so I took a whole hickory nut (the only thing that would work) and put it on a rat trap (mouse traps are to small) and that caught them (all 5) and I hated to kill them but had no choice. I think one of them left on his own and brouht back his wife the next winter and had their family and I had to catch them also. After that I cut the trees within close proximity to the house so they could not get back up there.

We had squirrels in our attic too. They chewed a hole in a place under the eaves and got in that way. We hired a local company (Cridder Ridder) that humanely traps and takes them to a wooded area for release. $30 per quirrel plus a truck fee. They caught only two...thank heaven they hadn't had babies yet!

We had a mother squirrel and her babies take up in our basement! I'm still not sure how she got in and out of the house. I tried at first to open a basement window to encourage her out but she wouldn't go for it. I think something happened to the mother because we started hearing the babies but they wouldn't stop calling for her.

We live in a city that has a very generously spirited animal control department. I called them and an officer came out and helped me catch the squirrels. She was going to take them to somebody who helped rehabilitate them. We found one baby but another one hid to where we coudn't find it. I found it a few days later dead in a bag of clothes.

So long story short, contact your city or county's animal control policy and see what they can do. Mine has also helped me remove a bird of prey from my back screened in porch (I'm sure my cats were happy about that) and she gave me advice on how to help some birds that kept falling out of a nest in our car port.

We actually got rid of our squirrels without hiring professionals, but only because we knew exactly where they had entered, there was only one point of entry, and the hole was easily accessible from the ground via a stepladder. It took us 5 days. Step 1. Put boombox in attic playing FM rock at full volume throughout day. Burn incense to contribute to olfactory overload. Seal opening at dusk w/heavy gauge wire mesh, hoping most squirrels have moved to better neighborhood. Step 2. The next morning, outraged hare Krishna squirrels not put off by boombox and incense make presence heard. Scrabble at opening trying to get out. Husband removes mesh. Stands at distance from opening to prevent more squirrels going in before these guys leave. Wife pounds on ceiling with cane from inside, driving squatters toward exit. Squirrel is seen to leave. Mesh is reinstalled. Step 3. Repeat step 2. Step 4. Repeat step 3. There were five squirrels left post boom box episode. Step 5. Silence from attic for over 24 hours. Squirrels start trying to break in from outside. Husband nails board over hole.

The question of whether it is more humane to relocate squirrels or to kill them is a subject of controversy. Some experts believe that relocating them is inhumane because the squirrels who are already in the area of relocation will not accept the relocated inhabitants.

Horned lizards spray blood from the corners of their eyes in self defense. Camels sometimes spit, not always in self defense, but sometimes it is in self defense. Chinchillas spray in self defense. Some snakes spit in self defense, and so do cats. Skunks spray a liquid from their anal sacs in self defense.