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Opossums are very slow and stupid animals but have survived and thrived for hundreds of millions of years, longer than the majority of macrofaunal species.
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Two parasites, one carried by cats and the other by opossums, are teaming up in the Pacific Northwest to kill seals, otters and other marine mammals.
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'and they would hate us, and throw stones at us, and not let us see the kangaroos, or opossums, or blue-gums, or Emu Brand birds, or anything.
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To see crows, opossums and squirrels, "you can go anywhere, " he said, and in the Northeast it's easy to find trees, but large blocks of deep forest are rare.
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Quokkas are about the same size as Virginia opossums, but baby quokkas nurse for three times as long, their parents invest more in each baby, and their brains are twice as big.
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In 2010, Vera Weisbecker of Cambridge University and a colleague found a correlation between brain size and dependence across 52 different species of marsupials, from familiar ones like kangaroos and opossums to more exotic ones like quokkas.
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