Common Ringtail Possum
Pseudocheirus peregrinus
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 10,628
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The common ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus, Greek for "false hand" and Latin for "pilgrim" or "alien") is an Australian marsupial. The possum lives in a variety of habitats and eats a variety of leaves of both native and introduced plants, as well as flowers, fruits and sap. It also consumes caecotropes, which are material fermented in the caecum and expelled during the daytime when it is resting in a nest.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Common ringtail possum”.