A tip of my blogging hat to Marcie O'Connor at Prairie Haven for posting a video of an opossum gathering leaves for its nest using its prehensile tail (scroll down in the December journal entry). Her video was captured using a motion-sensing night-vision camera, so I've embedded above a daylight version from the North Carolina Museum of Natural History. Another video, from Manhattan (NYC) shows an opossum carrying its leaves up a tree to its nesting site. I knew the tails were prehensile, but didn't know they were used for this purpose.
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