NOUN | a common brushtail possum | common brushtail possums | |
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- Mammals recorded from the reserve include the western grey kangaroo, common brushtail possum and western brush wallaby.
- The common brushtail possum ("Trichosurus vulpecula", from the Greek for "furry tailed" and the Latin for "little fox", previously in the genus "Phalangista") is a nocturnal, semiarboreal marsupial of the family Phalangeridae, native to Australia and naturalised in New Zealand, and the second-largest of the possums.
- Mature forest is essential to the development of tree hollows and the prescribed retention of the largest trees will significantly improve the chances of large species such as the red-tailed black cockatoo and the common brushtail possum inhibiting appropriately sized tree hollows.
- Native mammals include the red-tailed phascogale ("Phascogale calura"), black-flanked rock-wallaby ("Petrogale lateralis lateralis"), western brush wallaby ("Macropus irma"), and common brushtail possum ("Trichosurus vulpecula").
- The common brushtail possum is common in bushland only where foxes have been controlled, but is abundant in urban areas in spite of high fox density.
- Preston Beach is known for the town's abundance of Western Grey Kangaroo. Other marsupials that can be found in the area are the Common Brushtail Possum and Bandicoot.
- The common brushtail possum was successfully introduced in 1858 and is now a widespread pest, whereas the introduction of the common ringtail possum ultimately failed.
- The introduction of the common brushtail possum to New Zealand precipitated a serious decline in this species, particularly where large concentrations of the possum are present.
- Marsupials such as the western grey kangaroo, the southern brown bandicoot and the common brushtail possum also live in the area.
- The use of 1080 (sodium fluoroacetate) as a pesticide is a contentious issue. 1080 is used with carrots and cereal pellets to control the common brushtail possum, an introduced animal pest.
- Featherdale Wildlife Park provided "fresh-frozen" owl pellets to study common brushtail possum behaviour.
- Cranial adaptations are intermediate between the extant common brushtail possum and koala, with minor divergence from either.
- In New Zealand, the common brushtail possum was the main vector for the spread of bovine tuberculosis—a highly contagious disease affecting farmed cattle and deer.
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