WW: Possum skull

(Found with a complete skeleton, clean and gleaming white in a dark wet North Coast forest. Possums only live one to two years in the wild; even in captivity you're lucky to get 3 to 4 years out of one. Thus they give birth to ichthyoid numbers of young, which results in large populations of adults, which in turn leads to carcasses scattered across the landscape.

What got this one I can't say, but it wasn't a predator, since the skeleton was intact. The skull was a few feet away, however, so a [very restrained] scavenger happened by at some point.)

WW: Baby possum

(This is Didelphis virginiana, the only marsupial native to Canada and the States. It isn't native to the North Coast though, and when I was a kid we never saw them.

Apparently the species was introduced in the mid-20th century by immigrant Southerners, who like to hunt and eat them.

Since we do not, the local population exploded, and from the Nineties possums have become among the most commonly viewed wildlife in settled areas.

This one is about the size of a man's fist, and living under the deck.)