Sentences with phrase «american opossum»

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Long - legged wading birds, like herons, egrets, ibises, storks, and spoonbills may choose nesting sites above resident American alligators, likely to take advantage of protection from nest predators such as raccoons and opossums.

To judge the opossum's sabre - toothed credentials, Ernesto Blanco at the University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay, and his colleagues collected 44 South American marsupial predators, including four specimens of the short - tailed opossum.

Then there's the South American short - tailed opossum.

Other organisms currently on NHGRI 19s high - priority list for sequencing are: the cow; the South American gray, short - tailed opossum (a marsupial); the red flour beetle; the acorn worm; the flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea; 10 more species of fruit fly; four more species of fungi; and two ciliated microorganisms, Oxytricha trifallax and Tetrahymena thermophila.

American Dog Ticks feed on raccoons, skunks, opossums, and coyotes as well as dogs, cats, and humans.

One study published in the American Journal of Public Health found that opossums are around eight times less likely to be carrying rabies than feral dogs.