Brown-eared Woolly Opossum
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The Brown-eared Woolly Opossum (Caluromys lanatus), also known as the Ecuadoran or Western Woolly Opossum, is a woolly opossum species from South America. It is restricted to moist forests.
Just like any other member of the Caluromys genus, the Brown-eared Woolly Opossum is a strongly arboreal species of marsupial, differing from other Didelphidae opossums for having a comparatively large encephalization quotient and smaller litter size. The tail is long and heavy in more than half of its extension.
It feeds on fruits, nectar, invertebrates and small vertebrates.
[edit] References
- New World Marsupial Specialist Group (1996). Caluromys lanatus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006.
- John F. Eisenberg and Kent H. Redford, 2000. Mammals of Neotropics: Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil.
- Gardner, Alfred (November 16, 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 3. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
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