Turquoise Husband Made the Bed To His Partner Have A Cozy Place To the Hands – Dodo

Trong 10 năm qua, Hal Brindley và Cristina Garcia đã quay phim động vật hoang dã ở sân sau Bắc Carolina của họ bằng bẫy ảnh. Họ thường bắt được nhiều sóc, tiều phu và thỏ. Nhưng họ hiếm khi nhận được cảnh quay về opossums, có thể là do các loài động vật sống về đêm.

Gần đây, vận may của họ đã thay đổi.

“Getting rare behaviors is our biggest thrill when camera trapping … probably our household’s equivalent of watching football,” Brindley told The Dodo.

This leaf-gathering opossum wasn’t alone. Shortly after he’d taken the leaves into his den, another opossum — likely a female — followed him into the burrow.

“The female came home about an hour and a half after him, once he’d already finished making the bed,” Garcia said. “She likes to sleep in because she usually leaves later than him and comes home later.”

Now that they know where the opossums are, Brindley and Garcia are keeping their cameras pointed towards their den, which they are likely sharing with a woodchuck.

“Woodchucks create [an] important habitat with their burrows, and we’ve seen them sharing burrows with multiple opossums and occasionally with rabbits in our yard,” Brindley said. “The woodchucks will go out during the day, and the opossums work the night shift.”

The couple hopes to eventually see some opossum babies, although they have no idea if and when this might happen.

“[Opossums] have a long breeding season from about January to July with a peak around February to March,” Brindley said. “The only way we could know for sure is to get a video with the babies on her back.”

If they did eventually capture that behavior, Brindley said that would be the “holy grail of opossum camera trapping.”