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Opossum Didelphis virginiana
Opossums are the only marsupials native to North America. They were introduced near San Jose about 1910 as furbearers, and have since spread throughout the warm, cultivated lowlands of Central California. Opossums feed on almost anything edible: insects, mice, birds' eggs, nuts, berries, and carrion. They are nocturnal, spending the daylight hours holed up in dens, in rocky crevices, hollow tree trunks, under logs, in brush piles, or in other animals' abandoned burrows. Watch for these animals in the Monterey pine forest during the early morning or late evening hours when they may become active. |
