Lives in temperate Mountain Ash forests in southern Victoria. Eats invertebrates such as spiders and beetles and also the gum of Acacia trees. Grows to about 350mm and the tail is 200mm of this. The woodchipping industry cuts down the trees this animal depends on for food and nesting hollows.
Owls catch and eat the possums.
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