From the GreenTracks Amazon Herping Tour 10/06 - 10/13, 2018
from Dante Fenolio
Notes from the Amazon No.252: From time to time, we get to see small mammals in the lower canopy when we are on night hikes. This was a great encounter with a mouse opossum in a tract of forest off of the Amazon River, Loreto, Peru - October 2018. Emilia's Gracile Opossum (Gracilinanus emiliae) is native to South America's Amazon Basin. It is a diminutive marsupial with a prehensile tail. Mouse opossums are active nocturnal foragers in vine tangles and understory brush by night. The feed on insects, geckos, frogs and fruit. We need to do more to protect species like this. As the rainforests of the world evaporate into palm groves and gold mining fields, these are the species that will vanish with them. Thank you Robert Voss for the ID!
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