Noun:

ਅਮਰੀਕਾ ਦਾ ਇੱਕ ਆਰਬੋਰੀਅਲ ਥਣਧਾਰੀ ਜਾਨਵਰ,

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Sparassodonts and giant opossums shared the ecological niches for large predators with fearsome flightless terror birds (phorusrhacids), whose closest living relatives are the seriemas.

Their common name opossum shrimps stems from the presence of a brood pouch or "marsupium" in females.

The name opossum is applied more generally to any of the other marsupials.

but the male water opossum has a pouch that is used to accommodate his genitalia while swimming or running.

The brown four-eyed opossum (Metachirus nudicaudatus) is a pouchless marsupial of the family Didelphidae.

As the large carnivorous metatherians declined, and before the arrival of most types of carnivorans, predatory opossums such as Thylophorops temporarily attained larger size (about 7"nbsp;kg).

The water opossum (Chironectes minimus), also locally known as the yapok (/ˈjæpɒk/), is a marsupial of the family Didelphidae.

The sporulated oocysts are excreted in the feces of the opossum.

FaunaMammals typically found in Brown County State Park include white-tailed deer, bobcats, opossum, eastern gray squirrels, and chipmunks.

v t e Extant Didelphimorphia (opossums) species Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Mammalia Infraclass Marsupialia.

Over time, the people consumed more terrestrial animals, such as deer, turkey, raccoon, opossum, squirrel, and rabbits, which was likely related to changing habitat and waterway conditions.

Virginia opossum, Reptiles: eastern diamondback and pygmy rattlesnakes, gopher tortoise, green and leatherback sea turtles, and eastern indigo snake and fence.

Seven-tenths of a cubic metre of animal bones were found: deer, bear, wolf, raccoon, opossum, beaver, buffalo, elk, turkey, woodchuck, tortoise and hog; all contemporary with man's occupancy.

Synonyms:

flying squirrel, flying phalanger, possum, Trichosurus vulpecula, marsupial, cuscus, flying opossum, Phalangeridae, brush-tailed phalanger, native bear, phalanger, Phascolarctos cinereus, koala bear, kangaroo bear, pouched mammal, koala, family Phalangeridae,