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sources:

  • www.softschools.com/facts/animals/cuscus_facts/454/">Cuscus Facts</a>
  • http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/marsupial/marsupial.html
  • http://a-z-animals.com/animals/cuscus/

Interesting facts

  • a subspecies of possums and is the largest of the worlds possum species
  • uses saliva to mark its territory
  • color of the fur changes with age, will have final coat color when sexually mature
  • can survive up to 11 years in the wild
  • discovered in 1803

Motherhood

  • breeds all year round
  • 2-4 per liter
  • gestation period of 2 weeks
  • usually only one baby survives
  • emerges from the pouch after 6 to 7 months

Characteristics

  • size ranges between 6 and 24 inches
  • weighs between 7 and 13 pounds
  • long and strong tail that allows them to hang easier from trees
  • long and sharp claws
  • wooly fur
  • nocturnal
  • spend most of its time secluded in trees

What makes a marsupial

Eat or be eaten

  • carries young in a pouch
  • phylum- chordata
  • class- mammalia
  • omnivorous
  • prey includes fruit, leaves, and insects
  • predators include snakes, humans, and large birds

Habitat and Location

  • live in tropical rain forests or mangroves
  • found in Papua, New Guinea and the northern forests of Australia
  • threatened due to deforestation

to be or not to be

a mammal that is

  • fur
  • live birth
  • back bone
  • mammary glands

Blue- eyed spotted Cuscus

Phalanger Maculatus

Blue- eyed Spotted CusCus

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