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WOOLLY OPOSSUM AND PRAYING MANTIS IN HIDING

WOOLLY OPOSSUM AND PRAYING MANTIS IN HIDING

Woolly opossums are highly nocturnal, feeding on insects, small vertebrates and various fruits. They are arboreal. This one I saw in a tree less than three me...
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Woolly opossums are highly nocturnal, feeding on insects, small vertebrates and various fruits. They are arboreal. This one I saw in a tree less than three meters off the ground in Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica. I photoshopped in a praying mantis I had seen earlier in the park to give an example of a potential prey item the opossum might encounter. The praying mantis is itself a predator surviving mostly on smaller insects.
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