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  • Little Mama Possum (Opossum) Grooms A Joey In Pouch

    Little Mama Possum (Opossum) Grooms A Joey In Pouch

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    We have two mama opossums with babies in pouch coming to our yard at night. The previous video was of Big Mama. She has all black ears and is much bigger. This video is of Little Mama. She is much younger with white tips still on the ears and is also much smaller. Charleston SC…

  • Mama Opossum Has Babies in Pouch

    Mama Opossum Has Babies in Pouch

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    So excited to finally see a mama opossum with babies (called joeys) visible in her pouch! She stops by one waterbowl for a long drink and grooms her pouch and a couple babies and then moves over to a different waterbowl where she has a nondescript interaction with a raccoon. Raccoons and possums generally get…

  • Raccoon Kit Sneaks Up On OPossum

    Raccoon Kit Sneaks Up On OPossum

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    This baby possum (opossum) was eating when a raccoon kit comes up and sniffs him and then they both freak out and run from each other. They came back seconds later tho 🙂 We had a ripe banana that we were gonna compost but ended up cutting it up and leaving for the possum. The…

  • Cute Baby Possum (Opossum) Eating

    Cute Baby Possum (Opossum) Eating

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    Cute lil baby opossum eating a pear from a tree in our yard. The pear is the size of a grapefruit for reference. August 2025, Charleston SC

  • OPossum Eating With Raccoon and 3 Kits

    OPossum Eating With Raccoon and 3 Kits

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    This mama raccoon and opossum are eating together peacefully before her 3 raccoon kits come up sniffing around the possum. Mama raccoon is cool as a cucumber and knows that the possum is enjoying some nuts left in the pecan shells that they are sharing. This is next to a waterbowl, there are pecans shells…

  • Two Male Opossums territory Bites

    Two Male Opossums territory Bites

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    We were sitting on the porch when we saw a raccoon and a possum meetup near the waterbowl. When we zoomed in, we saw that there were also two male opossums getting ready to fight or test the boundaries of who was the territorial male. We started clapping to break them apart. The one on…

  • Wet Possum and Raccoon Grab A Drink

    Wet Possum and Raccoon Grab A Drink

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    Possums and raccoons are around each other all the time. The raccoons don’t seem to mind but the possums generally don’t like all the raccoon drama :). We had a rainstorm that day, so maybe the opossum hadn’t dried off yet or perhaps he/she spent a little time in the marsh. Charleston SC March 2025

  • Mama Possum with cute opossum stalker

    Mama Possum with cute opossum stalker

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    Mama possum (technically Opossum) is North America’s only marsupial. Marsupials are mammals like humans, but the females have a specialized pouch to house, nurse, and raise their babies. Possums are generally solitary but this guy has been hanging with mama for a while, so maybe he’s the dad. It’s mating season and male possums are…

  • Possum Drinking From Waterbowl

    Possum Drinking From Waterbowl

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    Opossum (aka Possum) is the only North American Marsupial. Marsupials are mammals with pouches. Possums give birth to live young but then the itty bitty babies climb to their mamas pouch by their abdomen and latch onto a nipple where it hangs out for a couple months. I do not know if this possum is…