Possum with tail out of ring

The possum with tail out of ring ( Pseudocheirus peregrinus ) is a Australian Marsupial, more running of the Possum S. It is an arboricolous, herbivorous, night animal (with the difference of the Phalanger-fox).

Description

Size of a cat, it measures 60 to 70 cm of the head at the end of the tail, the tail being as long as the body and often rolled up of loops from where its name. It weighs between 550 and 1100 G. Peeling is gray with clear spots behind the eyes. The belly is generally cream-coloured. It has a long prehensile tail, used like fifth member to climb or transport objects, which becomes white on the last quarter its length. The legs have five fingers and with the legs postpones first is deprived of claws and opposable to the others. The fingers provided with claws of the front legs present a free interval between the second and the third ray, making them opposable with the other fingers, which enables him to climb more easily in the trees where it spends its days in a nest - which can be Community - branches and sheets builds by its care in the hollow of a trunk, a large fork of trees or the Canopée.

Food

It nourishes sheets of trees indigenous S - including the eucalyptus which it is with the Koala one of the rare animals to be able to consume - or imported, of flowers and fruits which it can sometimes even conceal in the gardens. Like rabbits, it reconsomme part of some of these deposits that it deposited in its nest, which enables him to better use the breakdown products of its intestinal flora.

Habitat

It is a common animal, not fearing the company of the men. One can see it in the gardens the night (where it devours flowers and fruits), on the electric pylons and it can even settle in the attics of the houses. One finds it in the Queensland, the Nouvelle Wales of the South, the state of Victoria and the southernmost Australia

Lifestyle

He generally lives in formed group of a male, one or two females and two generations of small.

Reproduction

The female gives rise to two young people between April and November that it keeps in its marsupium for four months before carrying them hung on its back. It is the only species of possums where the male carries its small when the female will nourish itself. The small ones will remain with their parents up to eighteen months, age to which they reach their sexual maturity and leave their parents to found their family.

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