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You may have seen them waddling around the neighborhood: white faces, pointy noses, about the size of a cat with a tail that looks like a rat’s. The Virginia opossum is much maligned, says Terri Muzik, longtime rehabber at Wildlife Care Association in Sacramento, and it really deserves better. Muzik shares fun facts about these fascinating creatures to help us get to know our neighbors better.
Irv, clean up on aisle nine. “Opossums are nature’s garbage men,” says Muzik. They eat everything from insects, rodents, frogs, eggs, fruits and grains to table scraps, pet food and carrion (roadkill). They’re prone to metabolic bone disease and have a high need for calcium, so they eat every part of the animal, including the skeleton, she says, helping to keep the environment clean and healthy.
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