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Common opossum
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<p>The common opossum (<i>Didelphis marsupialis</i>), also called the southern or black-eared opossum or gambá, and sometimes called a possum, is a <a href="/facts/Marsupial/zN5s4bMq">marsupial</a> species living from the northeast of <a href="/facts/Mexico/IT5bwhdh">Mexico</a> to <a href="/facts/Bolivia/YNBoDKKR">Bolivia</a> (reaching the coast of the South <a href="/facts/Pacific_Ocean/bdxgXRVM">Pacific Ocean</a> to the central coast of <a href="/facts/Peru/dBt7XrYD">Peru</a>), including <a href="/facts/Trinidad_and_Tobago/jTXQP4Fe">Trinidad and Tobago</a> and the Windwards in the <a href="/facts/Caribbean/zRI9aMCh">Caribbean</a>, where it is called manicou. It prefers the woods, but can also live in fields and cities. </p>