Brush Tail Possum

Brush Tail Possum

This is another of my drawings done while in Australia of Australian animals.  The Brush Tail Possum is the second largest possum in the world.  It is a native of Australia and it is nocturnal.  So it is active mostly at night.  They have unique bone structure that gives them some triats similar to primates.  In fact, they are semi-aboreal.  They spend a lot of time in trees.  They usually make their home in hollow limbs of trees.  In some urban areas in Australia they have made homes in shed and the roof of houses and other buildings.  The adults are about 19 inches long and weigh just over 5 lbs.  That would be  48 cm and  2.3 kg.  

The Brush Tail Possum has an interesting scientific name.  Scientific names are usually Genus and species.  The Genus name is capitalized while the species name is not.  The Genus name for this animal is: Trichosurus.  That means "furry tailed" in Greek.  The species name is:  "vulpecula" and that means little fox in Latin.

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