(1) The opossum sleeps 19 hours out of every 24 and the giraffe sleeps only about 2.(2) The mammals the researchers studied were the platypus, echidna, opossum , wallaby, hedgehog, mouse, rat, rabbit, cow, pig, bat, tree shrew, colugo, ringtail lemur, and humans.(3) Don't put out any more seed than can be eaten by the birds by nightfall, especially where raccoons, opossums , deer, or rodents are a problem.(4) Many of the animals intentionally introduced to new habitats have been herbivorous mammals, including goats, rabbits, pigs, sheep, cattle, horses, donkeys, monkeys, deer, wallabies, opossums , and squirrels.(5) Marsupials, such as the opossums of the Americas and the kangaroos, koalas, and wombats of Australasia, generally give birth to tiny immature young which then complete their developments in a pouch.(6) Skunks, foxes, weasels, opossums and rabbits all use groundhog burrows for their dens.(7) As forests become chopped up into ever smaller chunks, the amount of ÔÇÿedgeÔÇÖ habitat increases for predators such as blue jays, crows, raccoons, opossums , feral cats, black rat snakes, and others that prey upon birds or their eggs.(8) Primitively clumsy and slow, with conical heads and pointed pink noses, sparse gray fur and naked ears, mature opossums reach the size of house cats (about ten pounds).(9) Scientists say this mammal is the oldest known fossil ancestor of modern marsupials - which include opossums , kangaroos, and koalas.(10) Many species of warblers sensitive to forest fragmentation live there, too, along with beavers, muskrats, deer, foxes, raccoons, opossums , groundhogs, and other four-legged animals.(11) All kinds of critters like to dine on poultry, including raccoons, skunks, opossums , weasels, foxes, coyotes, dogs and feral cats.(12) Crickets are eaten by small owls, birds, snakes, mice, frogs, raccoons, opossums and many other creatures.(13) Oh, that story with the opossums is a true story.(14) That's when the animals are most active and it's fun to see the deer, raccoons, opossums , rabbits, and birds.(15) He goes behind the fields and starts to trap opossums , skunks, rabbits, and squirrels.(16) There are more than 250 species of birds, in an island just 26 miles long and seven miles wide, and animals from armadillos and agoutis to racoons and opossums .
