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Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Banta, Nathaniel Moore, 1867- Schneider, Albert, 1863- Higley, William Kerr, 1860-1908 Abbott, Gerard Alan
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, American Audobon association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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SOME STRANGE MAMMALS lYl color is pale grayish, the hair being nearly white -ivithbrown tips. The tail is nearly naked, and is prehensile;and the general aspect of the creature is ratlike. It pro-duces in the spring from six to sixteen young ones whichare placed by the mother in her pouch immediately afterbirth, and remain there until able to take care of them-selves. In its range it is extremely common, being frequentlyfound living in the to\\Tis, where it acts as a scavenger bynight, retiring for shelter by day upon the roofs of thehouses or into the sewers. While it shoMS a liking for theabode of man, its principal haunts are in the woods. Itsfood, upon which it becomes fat and toothsome to thedusky palate, is persimmons and wild grapes, together withvarious berries and fruits that abound in the SouthernStates. The opossum can hardly be classed among the gameanimals of America, yet its jnusuit in the South in oldplantation days used to afford the staple amusement forthe dusky toile

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