Category: Mammals

The gorilla is by far the largest of the great apes, but there is no evidence that it ever reaches a height of 9 feet, as some sensationally minded writers have maintained. Captive gorillas,...

Yes, some kangaroos are able to climb trees and, though they are quite awkward about it, even seem to prefer the trees to the ground. The tree kangaroos, or tree wallabies as they are sometimes...

Some readers have probably seen a boxing kangaroo on exhibition and may have listened with sympathy to the harangue of the owner who dramatically told of numberless hours of grueling labor spent in...

Young kangaroos, like young opossums, have been found within the pouch of the mother so firmly attached to the nipples that it is almost impossible to remove them. From this has grown the belief,...

If an opossum is captured or attacked, it frequently does not run or fight as the majority of animals do under similar circumstances. Instead, it sinks to the ground, partially closes its eyes,...

The fact that the reproductive organ or penis of the male opossum is forked has resulted in some interesting suppositions regarding the reproductive habits of the opossum. So, how do opossums mate...