A short clip of Sunday's possum, the last dig of the day. This one was tailed out, and I put her up a thin bush while I sorted the dogs out, and tried to figure out how to work the video mode on the point-and-shoot camera.
I put up this little video clip for the folks in Europe who do not have possums. Possums are pretty slow-witted, and not too formidable. Their real claim to fame is their fecundity; they can easily have 20 or more young a year, and they will eat just about anything. They, in turn, serve as a sort of walking-buffet lunch for fox, coyote, bobcat, owls, hawks, eagles and alligators.
Our only marsupial, possums have more teeth than any other mammal in this hemisphere, but their teeth are not as big as a fox, or a powerful as a raccoon. The average possum only weighs 9-10 pounds, but some will get quite a bit bigger than that, and I have a skull of one that must have tipped 25 pounds when it was alive.
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