I had no idea they had made it this far north. I’ve only seen them in the southern US, though I had heard of some in the Niagara peninsula and even the city of Toronto. (Avoids political joke).
But we are a plant climate zone colder so I was astonished to see this one wandering about a foot above our lawn (that’s how deep the snow is) at -10ºC. Poor toes! (See below).
The ‘possum is a marsupial, like a kangaroo, about as unrelated from us as you can get and still be a mammal. Diversity is fun.




