Welcome back to Nature Study Tuesday. We took a break over the coldest months of the winter, but now it is warming up and time to get back outside and enjoy God’s creation.
Over the winter our oldest Philip, AKA Nature Boy, fed an opossum in our garage. This opossum has been lose and able to come and go as it pleased. It will now come up to you to be petted, and loves to be carried around.
Through the winter we studied possums and learned it is actually rare that they carry diseases. In fact it is rare for them to carry rabies. Jeannie Fulbright, author of the Young Explorer Series, had a opossum as a child according to her book Exploring Creation with Zoology 3: Land Animals of the Sixth Day. In fact much of the positive information we found about opossums was from her experience and research. They have very strong immune systems and can survive being bitten by many poisonous snakes. They only have a lifespan of about two years. Opossums are marsupials, meaning they carry their young in a pouch. They are the only marsupials living in the United States. In the U.S. the opossums living here are the Virginia Opossums.
So, there a little bit about the opossum you may or may not have known.
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Betty,
Thanks for grabbing my post before I even got on the computer this morning. I love setting to post ahead of time, but wish Blogger gave you the permalink.
That’s neat, I didn’t know any of that about opposums. . . they live around here too, and pretty much all we see of them is when one has an “encounter” with a vehicle on the road. I’m glad you’re starting up with Nature Study Tuesday again!