Awesome opossum! Did you know this is how an opossum mother transports her babies when they are too big for her pouch? Support WildCare's work to rehabilitate orphaned and injured opossums! https://www.discoverwildcare.org/donate | WildCare

Smily our female opossum gave birth a few weeks ago. When the baby opossum are born they are as big as a pea. Upon birth the mother will wetten the fur with her tongue from where the babies came out to her pouch. The babies will then swim up that furry river and enter the pouch and then attach to one of her eleven to thirteen nipples.There they will stay and suckle for three weeks. These little ones have grown to the size of a baby mouse and in a week or two will be hanging on moms back. Make su