possums in English

noun
1
an opossum.
A favourite southern dish is possum and taters: the opossum is parboiled, then salted and peppered and roasted in a pan with peeled, roasted sweet potatoes.
2
a tree-dwelling Australasian marsupial that typically has a prehensile tail.
It is what we, as carers of koalas, birds, possums , macropods (wallabies, kangaroos etc.) and other wildlife carers are trained to do.

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1. Well, he's skinning possums.

2. Marsupials include koalas, possums and kangaroos.

3. 1080 is used to control possums, rats, stoats, deer, and rabbits.

4. Bogong Bikkies: Nutritionally suitable baked biscuits help mountain pygmy-possums after bushfires

5. The existence of the Honey Possums and Banksias is an age old relationship, with the number of Banksia species in an area directly correlating to the density of Honey Possums

6. In Australia small marsupials known as possums visit flowers to feast on nectar.

7. As the day winds on, he collects a few possums, a couple of skunks.

8. Human possums avoid conflict by agreeing with whichever side is talking to them at the time.

9. Particularly, the February 2009 Black Saturday bushfires destroyed 43% of Leadbeater's possums' habitat in the Central Highlands, halving the wild population to 1,500.

10. Do Bandicoots eat rat poison? Small mammals including possums and Bandicoots often consume poisons such as snail bait, or rat bait that has been laid out to attract and kill rats, mice, and rabbits

11. In another post from awhile ago that mentioned this joke, someone pointed out just how many things are revealed by the line "I call the big one Bitey." Like 1) Homer knew possums were there instead of a fire extinguisher 2) One had already chomped on him 3) His only response was to close the door and name it