Zoológico de São Paulo recently became home to a pair of Bare-tailed Woolly Opossum joeys. (zooborns.com)
The Bare-tailed Woolly Opossum (Caluromys philander), also called the White-eared Opossum, is a species from South America. (zooborns.com)
Like other members of the genus Caluromys, the Bare-tailed Woolly Opossum is a strongly arboreal species of marsupial, differing from other didelphid opossums in having a comparatively large encephalization quotient and smaller litter size. (zooborns.com)
A female bare-tailed woolly opossum (Caluromys philander) named Valentine at Shell Factory Nature Park in Fort Meyers, Florida. (joelsartore.com)
Didelphidae1
The main predators of G. longipes are the spider Ctenus fasciatus Mello-Leitao (Ctenidae) and the opossum Philander opossum (L.) (Didelphidae). (usf.edu)
Didelphimorphia1
The American possums are actually called opossums, scientific name, Didelphimorphia. (bobinoz.com)
Didelphis1
Among 175 A. raillieti specimens recovered from the marsupial hosts Didelphis aurita , D. albiventris , and Philander quica , we identified 99 MT-CO1 haplotypes forming four haplogroups and four clades in networks and phylogenetic trees, respectively. (biomedcentral.com)
Virginia Opossum2
Northwest Trek Wildlife Park in Eatonville, Washington recently welcomed a rescued baby Virginia Opossum. (zooborns.com)
The Virginia Opossum is the only North American marsupial that lives north of Mexico. (zooborns.com)
Marsupial1
Opossums are the only type of marsupial found in North, Central, and South America. (nhptv.org)
Species3
Olrog's four-eyed opossum (Philander olrogi) is a South American species of opossum found in eastern Bolivia, first described in 2008 based on specimens collected in 1974. (wikipedia.org)
Two weeks ago, the mother of this baby Opossum was found killed by a passing car. (zooborns.com)
Animal1
It seems that all the confusion was started by Capt Cook's botanist, Sir Joseph Banks, who named the Australian animal a possum because it "looked like" the American opossum. (bobinoz.com)
Gray four-ey2
This is a photo of the gray four-eyed opossum ( Philander opossum ). (stackexchange.com)
This is a young Gray Four-eyed Opossum (Philander opossum) caught in one of our mammal traps, as we were surveying for an unusual jungle rodent called Watson's Climbing Rat (Tylomys watsoni) in Rara Avis Nature Reserve, Costa Rica. (rtpi.org)
Virginia opossum1
Like it's cousin, the Virginia Opossum, these guys show a remarkable resistance to venoms and poisons, including snake venom, and are relatively immune to dangerous snake bites. (rtpi.org)
Didelphid3
The northernmost species, Virginia opossums , are the only extant didelphid found north of Mexico. (umich.edu)
Sparassocynids" are small, carnivorously-adapted marsupials known from the late Miocene and Pliocene of South America, thought to be relatives of living didelphid opossums but of otherwise uncertain phylogenetic relationships. (springer.com)
120 species of living didelphid opossums (which collectively comprise the didelphimorphian crown-clade), a diverse range of dentally plesimorphic metatherians from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic of the northern and southern hemispheres, including both crown- and stem-marsupials, have been referred to this group at one time or another (see Beck in press for a recent review). (springer.com)
Predator1
It's thought that the position of these spots mimics the position of the eyes on a much larger predator, so if a predator like a raccoon or a coyote sees the opossum they'll mistake it for a much larger predator and they'll leave it alone. (stackexchange.com)
American3
It seems that all the confusion was started by Capt Cook's botanist, Sir Joseph Banks, who named the Australian animal a possum because it "looked like" the American opossum. (bobinoz.com)
I've only ever seen him once and you can read about that experience in the same blog post that has the pictures of the American opossums. (bobinoz.com)
I've just been informed by Sam in the comments below that American opossums play dead when threatened. (bobinoz.com)
North1
In North America, opossums have been credited with being a biological. (rtpi.org)