This article was originally published on Critter Science.

The bare-tailed woolly opossum, aka white-eared opossum, can be found in South America. They prefer rainforests, subtropical forests, secondary forests, and plantations with thick plant cover. These marsupials have a wide distribution, but 1 that is decreasing. This is due to habitat loss and destruction at the hands of deforestation […]

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