The squirrel as animals annoying yet profitable
Author: Rose F. Callaway
The word opossum comes from the indigenous voice “Sarig,” while the name of opossum, very often too, is the English name. This animal is widespread in America from Canada to Chile and northern Argentina. It is common in the central part of this vast area, and is found in more dense forests and groves. In most parts of Argentina, Paraguay, southern Brazil and Uruguay, the species is common opossum (Didelphys azarai).
On the ground, this essentially American arboreal marsupial moves with remarkable slowness and clumsiness, laying the entire sole of the foot. But perched on the trees very lightly, also moves between the branches with security with opposable thumbs the rear feet and prehensile tail that is provided.
The senses of this marsupial, which appears more developed the smell.
As for your nutrition regimen, as well as small mammals, birds, eggs, reptiles and plants are added to large insects, larvae and even worms. If necessary draw on complies with fruit, corn and juicy roots. However, any food you prefer the blood, which often prompts him to behave with extraordinary ferocity: in houses, for example, slaughters chickens, sucks the blood and makes the flesh of their victims intact.
It is not easy to kill, because it has a great vitality and is ready to undertake simpre flee or hide in some place inaccessible broken. Where is closed every possible escape route, this marsupial has the remarkable habit of playing dead, his tongue hanging and glassy eyes, the aggressor, then, convinced that the animal is dead away, but soon after, the opossum up and limping back to the forest.
It has been observed in captive specimens that gestation lasts fourteen days, after which the female gives birth, or, rather, carries the young, whose number varies from four to sixteen of the uterus to pouch. At first small possums are reports and lack of eyes and ears. But after fifty days, the young animals are fully developed, have the same size as mice, the hair covering his entire body and eyes are already open. After sixty days of lactation in the marsupial, the weight of offspring has increased a hundredfold. And out of the bag marsupial soon after, when they have reached a size equivalent to a rat.
Due to the damage caused in poultry, farmers and farmers pursue relentlessly the opossum, which hunt by any means. The meat is not considered edible, due to foul odor it emits. In contrast, the skin is very much appreciated. In captivity, possums are rather dull and inactive.
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