What Is The Habitat Of The Water Opossum?
The water opossum is generally found in the lakes and freshwater streams in Central and South America, Mexico, and Argentina. It lives in burrows on the banks of rivers, streams and lakes, emerging after dusk to swim and search for its food, which predominantly includes fish, crustaceans and other aquatic animals. It eats its meals on the bank of the river, lake or stream. The local name for a water opossum is the yapok, which is probably derived from the Oyapok River in French Guiana. Yapoks mainly mate in the month of December. They produce a litter of one to five young yapoks at a time, which are born in the nest two weeks after they mate. The offspring start showing some signs of fur when they are 22 days old, and their eyes have opened and their bodies are protruding from their mother’s pouch by the time they are about 40 days old. By the time they are 48 days old, the young opossums are detached from the nipples, but they still continue to nurse and sleep with their mother.
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