Wild Science: Opossum 

One point not mentioned: rabies,distemper,immunity to snake bites could be due to their lower body temperature. I prefer their title as "Nature's sanitation engineers".

I love my opossums that come visit every night. It is funny to sometimes see the opossums, raccoons and foxes all eat together peacefully.

I think they are absolutely wonderful and it breaks my heart everytime i see one sitting dead by the road, hit by a car. I will stop safely for all animals to cross. Some are like humans and get confused in the middle of the road not sure what to do next and then they are gone. It happens to pet cats, dogs, squirrels, raccoons, ect. It's sad.

I'm a proud opossum furparent...I feed a mom and her baby everynight ........I absolutely love them....

I have an Opossum family that lives behind my fence. I had been feeding homeless kitties every night, then started noticing the opossums coming up to see what was in the bowl. Now, both the cats and opossums take turns waiting for each other to finish before they walk up to eat. It is so cute. Also, these little guys (opossums) seem to like to wash their lil hands in the water bowl. I can’t get enough of them. I only wish I could give them a bath!

Smooth coverage of one of our least appreciated mammals in the U.S. (and now in Canada as well..!). Having handled and helped over two dozen of them over the years, I'll attest to their surprisingly good nature ( in most of them) and general cleanliness when given the opportunity to relax and have a well deserved 'time out' from a life of foraging in sparse territory.

One of the oldest mammals too, they were around up to 70 million years ago even before the extinction event.

They are often considered the pacifist of the animal world, most every behavior is defensive. About the only time they go on the offense is when they are hunting rodents, they love to eat rats and mice.

I live in Northern California and I'm bad... I can't resist petting every opossum I see. I'm very slow, gentle and quiet so none have ever played possum on me. We have opossums in our yard most nights and we love them. We had a pet opossum 40 years ago and I would love to have one again. Sweet and affectionate. Easy to litter box train but messy eaters.

You mention studies of opossum blood to understand it's unique healing qualities. I encourage those who study them to also check out the make up of their saliva. I've been bitten numerous times (please, no sass, things happen, can't always be prepared..!) and the injuries healed better than virtually any other typical cut we might get in our endeavors.

There’s an opossum that comes around almost every night so we feed it many scrap foods. Sometimes foxes come about to. I rewatch the camera footage of them eating and it’s amazing, the animals of the wild are very fascinating and I am grateful to give it some food

They are so cute, been having some living under my Honeysuckle Plant. I love to feed them every night when I can. They love Fruits and Peanuts.

Ahhh hes got a lil opossum lead! So cute!

If there was a god, Possums would be the their favorite creatures.

Opossums are my favorite animals ❤️

I just discovered that the feral cat my wife thinks she's been feeding and housing in the cathouses she's bought and put under the bush outside my eye level basement window is actually an opossum. She's been trying to get a look at this poor cat and leaving food for it all Winter and up till now, June. I heard it and went to the window last night and I woke up my wife to see it at long last. Only it's back end was visible at first and so my wife opened the window to talk to the cat, our young cat that hangs around out there now, immediately jumped out and sat there as the opossum turned around calmly and looked at us ignoring our cat. I guess the cat and opossum have come to know each other but I laughed at the shocked look on my wife's face. She's just put the food out for it a few minutes ago so I guess she's accepted that it's an opossum and not a cat she's been feeding. I said it would be cuter when we get used to it, it's not an ugly cat it's a cute opossum.

They are wombles!

I love Opossums :) Im not sure where to adopt one though :(

strangely if they see a dog first they will play dead, the dog will sniff it and leave it alone, but if the dog stumbles on the opossum first it's chase instinct will activate and it will pursue the critter that is practically defenseless and at the mercy of the dog, the opossum's best chance of not being to molested is to be cornered by a harmless house dog that is just curious. but the play dead instinct of the opossum is weird to watch, but serves the critter well, most animals will leave a dead animal alone !!!

Он такой замечательный актер! Вот бы получить его автограф!

Cool creatures, I have a wild one that I feed nightly, she is quite friendly. Harmless little sweetie that just wants to eat and live it's really short lifespan in happiness. I'm trying to help her. Love my little petunia possum. See her video on my page, stripervince1

I love possums.

Omg. Its poor tail or lack there of. 👀😳😭😭

Alien Jellybeans 😂

Possums are OSSUM

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what does an opossum do?

Love possums

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Y’all know you can spell it possum as well right?

This opossum is cute , the other ones i see are ugly lol

Wild scene presents pet possum..

I want a possum for a pet! Been watching videos on them. Found a dead one in the road the other day and checked it’s pouch but no babies.

Wait.... It should be a wild opossum. Why I saw a pet opossum?

Thanks heaps for sharing. :D

0:39 Uh, no, the scientific name for the North American opossum is 'Didelphis virginiana'. The 'Didelphimorphia' mentioned is the entire order comprising more than a hundred species all over both Americas.

Beauty