Yapok
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see opossum.
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Opossum - name for several marsupials, or pouched mammals, of the family Didelphidae, native to Central and South America, with one species extending N to the United States.
Yapok, water opossum
Chironectes minimus
An aquatic marsupial - a member of the opossum family - with black and grey waterproof fur, webbed hind feet and a backward-pointing pouch in both sexes.
Life span
Up to 3 years in captivity.
Yapok or Water Opossum (Chironectes minimus)
Genus Cryptonanus (translation of Spanish article) ...
Rufous hare-wallaby or Mala
Rufous hare-wallaby or Mala
Tasmanian Devil
Tasmanian Devil
Virginia Opossum
Water opossum or yapok
Water opossum or yapok
Yellow-footed rock wallaby
Yellow-footed rock wallaby ...
Marsupials may be arboreal, terriculous, or fossorial and at least one species is semi-aquatic (yapoks or water opossums). Their locomotion may include walking, gliding, hopping, running and swimming. Marsupials have not evolved powered flight.
 See also: Water opossum, Marsupial, Opossum, Virginia Opossum, Burro
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