29/09/2024

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A creature of two worlds – the brush tailed possum – cheeky, yet deadly!

My latest feature in Wildlife Australia magazine, about the possum seen as delightful and cheeky in Australia, grilled as a deadly havoc-spreading menace in Aotearoa / New Zealand     There’s a well-known Aussie species, with a benign influence here, but lethal consequences once brought into Aotearoa New Zealand, even if for all the ‘right reasons’ . Henricus Peters shares the story of the brush-tailed possum…     The Australian context  The brush-tailed possum, Trichosurus vulpecula, is the most widely distributed possum in...