Sentences with word «opossum»

A team of researchers at MIT revealed in 2007 that they deciphered the DNA of the gray short - tailed opossum, the first marsupial to have its genome mapped.

This is a wonderful rescue group and I am happy to be a part of the family of opossum rehabbers and rescuers.

The City of San Antonio Animal Care Services does not take in stray or owner surrender wildlife (such as opossums, naked mole rats, etc.).

He also said Young failed to destroy some baby opossums on a Friday after being told they were caged.

Geographic association of Rickettsia felis - Infected opossums with human murine typhus, Texas.

She had noticed the mother opossum lying on the side of the road during her travels and thought she would stop to see if she could help her,» Diane explained.

He found that the animals» reproductive systems aged more slowly than their mainland relations» did: More than half enjoyed a second breeding season, a luxury for opossums.

Dr. Rick Ostfeld, author of a book on Lyme disease and a senior scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, sees opossums as walking tick vacuums.

So Lesku and his colleagues compiled studies looking at sleep patterns in 83 species of mammals — from opossums and sloths, to cows, beavers, macaques and people — and reanalysed the data using statistical techniques to account for their position on the evolutionary tree.

Yet opossums didn't become abundant until 3 million to 4 million years after the family went extinct.

North America has only one marsupial species: the Virginia opossum.

Upon learning a previously unknown, categorical fact («opossums make their homes in foliage,» for example), the 4 - to 7 - year - old children in the study often felt that they already knew that fact.

You can also place vinegar stations around your yard in the areas frequented by opossums.

Also, I have a permit to do wildlife rehabilitation, which has given me an opportunity to meet and care for new kinds of animals including opossums, squirrels and raccoons.

Will the sedated opossum on his head ever break free and run back to the woods?

We spoke to the naturalist artist about his new trading post in Santa Fe, why New York has a 15 - year expiration date for artists, and finding a dead opossum in his new studio.

So many mammals — Geoffrey's Tamarin, numerous Two - toed and Three - toed Sloths, olingo, night monkeys, two opossum species...

The author of that report wrote that the descendents would tell him, «Plenty catch kangaroo and plenty catch opossum there.»

Page's team studied the Y chromosome in eight animals: four primates (human, chimpanzee, rhesus macaque, and marmoset), three other mammals (rat, mouse, and bull) and a marsupial, a South American opossum.

You've found a litter of helpless kittens, a baby bird fallen from its nest, or an orphaned opossum in your yard... now what?

Prevention: Control opossum in your yard.

LifeLearn's Diane Beliski was pleasantly surprised after a routine visit to her family veterinarian when she and her daughters were invited to the back room to meet two baby rescue opossums.

So are the orphaned baby birds, the abandoned bunnies and the injured young opossums.

We lived in a rural subdivision where opossums, mice, squirrels, and raccoons were common annoyances.

Then, of course, there are Grigg's proposed solutions — first and foremost: «managing feral cat and opossum populations.»

Trashy feeding stations are also more likely to attract various kinds of wildlife, like opossums, skunks and raccoons, which again are major causes for neighbors to complain.

Opossums usually do not den in one place for very long, but if there are attractive things around like food set out for community cats or a snug hole under your porch, they may decide to stay longer to take advantage of the easy food and shelter.

Some nocturnal rain forest creatures you may see in the darkness include bats, raccoons, anteaters, kinkajous, four eyed opossums, olingos, or sloths.

Fireplace, • 2 x Mountain View Suites — private balconies, Opossum fur throws.

Our favorite opossum hero returns home after 15 years to find the kingdom of Zephyrus in shambles.

«Konami's classic 2D action platform titles have a legacy of being well received and enjoyed by gamers worldwide,» said David Daniels, Director of Marketing at Konami Digital Entertainment Inc. «So it was only natural that we bring Sparkster, our favorite opossum hero, to next generation consoles with a combination of elevated graphics, all new environments and of course, the signature rocket action gameplay.»

For example, some banana species use bats, and a species called banksia uses opossums.

Austad decided that opossums age and breed relatively quickly because they are easy targets for predators.

February is prime season for squirrels in North Texas, while cottontail rabbit and opossum season is around the corner

After all, if our kids were average, we wouldn't put them on year - round travel teams, force them to practice the cello for three hours a day or sign them up for every honors class short of AP taxidermy (and we'd put them in that, too, if we heard that the admissions director at Princeton had a weakness for stuffed opossums).

Alicia Bayer lives with her husband, four kids, four cats and an occasional opossum in rural Minnesota.

Mom will state, that after several minutes and multiple attempts, the baby either «falls asleep» (which really means baby is shutting his world out, known as a neurological shut down... aka «playing opossum»), or becomes extremely fussy.

Only the most generalist species remain in the smaller fragments, she added, such as the white - eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris) or the nine - banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), which are able to adapt to disturbed environments because they do not need such large areas to find food.

Griffith sampled opossum gene activity before pregnancy, during the egg - shell stage, and after implantation.

Early opossum embryos develop for about 12 days, enclosed as shelled eggs in the womb.

In species like red deer, spider monkeys, and Venezuelan opossums, environmental conditions strongly influence the sex mix of the offspring.

The island had almost no natural opossum predators.

He trapped healthy 18 - month - old opossums, then trapped them again just a few months later, and found them lame, half blind, balding, and full of parasites.

Gina, raccoons and opossums!!!! Oh my goodness!!!

The journey is also punctuated with name - calling and potty jokes, in large part from the two opossum brothers Crash (voice by Sean William Scott) and Eddie (voice by Josh Peck).

Many other raccoons, several opossums, the altered feral cat plus two other stray cats all come to feed.

Young said Friday he knew nothing about an incident involving opossums, but acknowledged that «sometimes it takes a little while to get to animals» that need attention or must be put to death.