The striped possum is a small nocturnal creature that hunts for bugs and grubs in the rainforests of Australia and New Guinea. It has a black-and-white pelt and a long tail, resembling a miniature skunk. Despite its intelligence, it keeps its distance from humans.
The striped possum is a tiny, curious creature that spends its nights hunting for bugs and grubs in Australia and New Guinea 's dense rainforests.lives an enigmatic creature known as the striped possum . Quiet, cute, and nocturnal, its favorite activity is boring holes into the trees and using its elongated fingers to extract ants and termites from the trunks within.
Once it’s time to rest, it likes to stretch out on a bed of soft rainforest ferns or make a leafy cushion. Hiding is important during the day, considering that the indigenous people of New Guinea often hunt these cute critters for their black and white pelts. They’re also a treat for snakes in the rainforests of Australia.
Its reproduction is also largely a mystery, though we do know that females usually have two young and that males intensely compete for a female partner. We also know that females have pouches to carry their young, and later, after weaning, they carry their babies on their backs. Once they’re weaned from their mothers, these marsupials are largely solitary until it’s time to partner up and mate.and hunt that way, too. Females may den together and, of course, with their young. A lot of what we know about this quiet creature comes from those who have fallen from their mother’s backs and were rescued by humans.
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