In a paper just published, a joint British and Argentinian research team have shown that a weasel-like carnivorous
marsupial called Sparassocynus, is an extinct carnivorous relative of short-tailed opossums.
During my professional life as an academic I have collated much information from diverse sources for presentation to undergraduate and postgraduate students; this volume has comprehensively updated the carnivorous
marsupial knowledge base, and its extensive references are a wonderful source of primary work collated by the authors over many years.
In fact, this primitive
marsupial enjoys the benefits of living near humans.
This is a diprodont
marsupial, the only member of the Tarsipedidae family (Aplin & Archer, 1987).
A Western Australia tourism spokesman said: "Our pristine Rottnest Island, just a 30-minute ferry ride from Perth, is the only place on the planet where people can mingle with the beloved
marsupial. And now the name fittingly sits on the side of a Qantas Dreamliner bringing tourists to our great state.
If you ever see a wide-eyed
marsupial peeking from someone's pocket, you'll know it's a friendly sugar glider.
Key words: interference competition, vocalization, great fruit-eating bat, didelphids,
marsupial, Cecropia, southeastern Brazil
Novos registros do elusivo
marsupial Gracilinanus emiliae (Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae) da Bacia Amazonica Brasileira e uma extensao de distribuicao para a especie
The nine-month-old prince carried out his first official engagement at Sydney's Taronga Zoo and had the endangered
marsupial's new enclosure named after him.
The Cambridges took their eightmonth-old son to Sydney's Taronga zoo to meet a bilby - a rabbit-like
marsupial - named after the royal infant.
It is thought that the animal in question may be Billy, a mischievous
marsupial who escaped from a farm in 2010 before being recaptured.
The Colocolo opossum (Dromiciops gliroides Thomas, 1894) is an arboreal
marsupial, endemic to temperate rain forests of southern Chile and Argentina (Iriarte, 2008; Martin, 2010), and the sole living representative of the order Microbiotheria (Mann, 1978).
KANGAROOS are a member of the
marsupial class of mammals.
Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- Research comparing rats and mice with their distance relatives the
marsupial, suggested that moveable whiskers were an important milestone in the evolution of mammals from reptiles.
