Possums seem to be one of the most adaptable critters probably with the exception of the cockroach. Like most my encounters are usually on the road at night but I do occasionally encounter them around the house or at work. I came across this informative article this morning and thought it worth highlighting out here.
The Virginia opossum, Didelphis virginiana, is one of the more familiar and widespread mammals in the United States, found coast to coast, up into Canada and down into Costa Rica, in fields and sheds, city parks and the urban alleys, and all too often as roadkill on highways. The opossum is generally lumped together in the public mind with raccoons, squirrels, skunks and other workaday wildlife of more or less house-cat dimensions, but scientists emphasize that Didelphis is a fundamentally different animal, as singular in its evolutionary history as it is solitary in its habits.
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