The Opossum's Tail

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Part of the video series: Facts About Opossums

Summary: Learn facts about opossum tails and information on how to care for possums in this free online instructional video.

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By Jody Lutz
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Jody Lutz is an Interpretive Naturalist of Zoology at the L.A. Zoo. She is an animal trainer, animal rehabilitator, and lifelong animal lover, and has worked on many wildlife films and...read more

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"Well you can see this tail is very long. Just like a rat's tail. It is hairless pretty much and it is scaly but it does something that a rat's tail doesn't do and that is prehensile or grasping. You see how it holds on to my finger. Well it is going to hold on to the trees. So it has its hands and its feet, his tail, an extra limb to grasp when it is in the trees. "

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