opossum

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A beaver’s tail creates a rhythm on the deck and an opossum has a bass fashioned out of a gourd.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2024

Today, there are only three survivors: the nine-banded armadillo, the Virginia opossum and the North American porcupine.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2024

The demolished deer, the obliterated opossum, the wrecked raccoon: This is the detritus of our human-dominated age.

From Slate • May 25, 2024

In the end, though, it was just a "giant opossum that was under the house", she testified.

From BBC • May 9, 2024

Prices were cheap: fifteen cents for a large opossum hide, twenty-five for a good skunk hide.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls