Secret Possum Refuge
A radical plan is helping a tiny mammal – the mountain pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus) – beat extinction.
Trevor Evans peers into a wooden nest box.
“Ah, somebody’s awake,”he says with satisfaction as he pulls out a tiny, wriggly scrap of fur with a long tail – a thumb-sized mountain pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus) that sniffs the cold air with expectant curiosity.
This is a juvenile male and, along with 22 females and seven other males of this critically endangered species being held nearby, he’s supposed to still be in torpor – a type of hibernation the species enters during the coldest seasons.
Author's summary: Helping a tiny mammal beat extinction.
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