Mammal Tracks and Sign

Opossum

 

TRACKS

 

 

Opossums have an opposable thumb, which sticks out to one side in their tracks.

 

This photo shows the opossum's "fingers" really well.

 

An opossum trail along a fallen log in a marsh.

 

close-up detail of a couple of the tracks in the above photo.

 

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