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Cat-family members have furry bodies head to tail, hairy ears and whiskered faces.
All that fur keeps them appropriately ventilated and warm throughout the year. All those hairy-ed ears let them locate and name sounds even as nose-area fur lets them locate and name scents. Whiskered faces let them look at spaces in terms of their exact depths and dimensions.
Common ringtail possums memberize the marsupial family even as they master all the above attributes.
Might both them and their feline-sentient relatives have hair inside their nose like some people?
Might it be possible that people with hairy ears, faces and noses master the above-mentioned attributes more so than their hairless or less hairy-ed counterparts?
Ringtail possums appear as so amenable to their counterpart articulation as plush toys.
In a home or museum -- children and/or grown-up ;-D -- setting, I imagine them in a learning-friendly setting of their favorite drinkable and edible sources as real or toy flowering, fruiting, leafing, nectaring Bottle brush (Callistemon, Grevillea); Eucalyptus and gum (Angophora, Corymbia, Eucalyptus); Oleander and wattle (Acacia); She-oak (Allocasuarina); and Tea tree (Leptospermum).
Might it not be environmentally, sustainably proactive to have a toy road with toy vehicles or a toy train station with toy tracks and trains, alongside of which a toy sign mentioning "Stop for common ringtail possums!"?
Ringtail possums draw me back again and again to the above images and information.
What is not to learn from, and like about, such a beautiful, environmental, intelligent sentient who makes native, natural vegetation feel -- ;-D -- so wanted at meal times?
VioletteRose, Widening the circle of acquaintances for Australia's ringtail possum is a pleasure.
Great to know about this animal, again something new for me!