The fatter they get, the lazier they are; and as the season advances, and the fruit falls, the opossums are likely to satisfy their appetites with the persimmons they can pick up under the trees.
In a hollow tree, or a woodpile, the opossums sleep by day, and trail out in companies to climb the persimmon trees at night to feast.
Along about Thanksgiving day, or Christmas, the day of reckoning arrives, when the negro hunter comes home with the opossums which have stolen his persimmons.
It came forth hissing and striking blindly right and left when the dogs pulled the opossums out, but was killed with a blow of the spade without injuring the dogs.
Defn: Having feet resembling hands, or with the first toe opposable, as the opossums and monkeys.
Defn: A subclass of Mammalia, including nearly all the mammals of Australia and the adjacent islands, together with the opossums of America.
All of these were obtained by Natterer from the opossums of tropical America.
Some of the American opossums (Didelphys brachyura, and D.
Diesing, in one of his best illustrated monographs, has shown that the opossums in question are infested by two distinct species of fluke, which must be generically separated from the distomes.
Being a tolerably large species, that is to say 3″ in length, it seems surprising that it has not been found in the American opossums generally.
Jaguars, ocelots, and opossums slink about in the gloom.
Opossums are hunted extensively in the South, and when pursued they usually climb the nearest tree, unless they are close to the den.
Opossums are fairly good climbers and the enclosure should have a wide strip of tin around, as described elsewhere in the chapter on Enclosures.
Overhead, far up in the topmost boughs of one of the giant gums some opossums squeal angrily at an intruding native bear, which, like themselves, has climbed to feed upon the young and tender eucalyptus leaves.
In the next compartment are a pair of short-eared opossums (P.
Mooning' opossums is a speciality with country boys.
The opossums usually abound where grass is to be found, lodging by day in the holes and hollows of trees.
When opossums are hunted by moonlight, the native dog is useful in scenting them along the ground where they sometimes feed, and in guiding the native to the tree they have ascended, when alarmed at his approach.
For the opossums form the only members of the marsupial class now living outside Australia; and yet, what is at least equally remarkable, none of the opossums are found per contra in Australia itself.
Opossums bounded upon the roof at night and snakes were not uncommon.
Opossums and native cats are unfit to cumber the earth, and must be hunted into holes, wherever possible.
As he paused before entering the house, he could hear the bark falling from the trees a quarter of a mile off, and the opossums scratching and snapping little twigs as they passed from bough to bough.
Be this as it may, one fact remains,--that images can be seen even by the blind as distinctly and vividly as you and I now see the stream below our feet and the opossums at play upon yonder boughs.
The man who had joined us, had three or four small opossums and a snake, which he laid upon the ground, and offered us.
A preliminary study of the North American opossums of the genus Didelphis.
In opossums from the southeast the nasals are truncate posteriorly and average 47.
Schaldach reported in his notes that four-eyed opossums robbed trap lines set for small mammals at Rancho Pano Ayuctle.
It does not appear, by the testimony of any traveller, that they are to be found in any other part of the world; and seem to be in the Old Continent, what the opossums are in the New.
Virginia and murineopossums have the same, but none of them have the phalanges fastened together.
On various occasions opossums or their remains have been found in such old houses, and opossums released from live-traps have been known to seek shelter in abandoned woodrat houses.
These practices were indeed primitive antisepsis, yet were not based on a germ theory of the conditions which were partially prevented.
Large strings of geese, ducks, opossums and skunks hung upon the sides of the huts to ripen.
Pumpkins, spoiled venison and rancid, oily butter for supper, added to the odor of a few 'coons and opossums that were ripening in the sun, induced us to cut our comfort short.
It reappears in America, where several species of opossums are found; and it was long thought necessary to postulate a direct southern connection of these distant countries, in order to account for this curious fact of distribution.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "opossums" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
