i really don't know how to feel about that xD i was attacked by one when i was a kid and still haunts me

While this one did seem friendly... yea, there is a lot of teeth there.

bet the experience though was amazing ^_^

He wants uppies!

And then he wants downies.... then uppies again... like the hokie pokie, only vertical...

oh my god, adorable

Adorable... yet bitey. (-:

North America's marsupial!

There can be only one. Though wikipedia names more like 6 flavors of opossum.

The only opossum (and marsupial) found in the wild of the United States and Canada is the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana). Others can be found in southern Mexico, Central America and South America; the page for the genus Didelphis has a map of their range.

If you go 'up one directory' to the broader family Didelphidae, you'll find there are close to or over one hundred species of opossum from the looks of the page (includes extinct examples).

But in the US, there is only the one. I haven't really seen them in the wild much, but around five years ago they started to pop up more often. For a while, I found one frequently lounging near my driveway when I came home.

Eats ticks, they don't get rabies and when the chips are down they play dead. Opossum are awesome.

Awesome, or Oawesome?

Oh my god, look at that sweetheart!