What marsupials have you seen?

There's only five species around in all of Europe. And sadly none of them are particularly close to where I live (the closest one at Best Zoo being bts of course...). Last year was also not the best year for zoo visits with all the full closures or closed houses due to the 'rona. Maybe this will be the year though. :fingerscrossed:

 

Wow, so many opossums you’ve seen! I wish I could see some living yapok, though they were a captivity thing in Dallas’s Aquarium where I lived near there. But I heard there are a few different opossum species (Which I have never seen) in some exotic pet shop here, hopefully, I will make it to see Derby’s woolly opossum and gray short-tailed opossum this year!

 

Let's see...

Virginia opossum
Koala
Tasmanian devil
Southern hairy-nosed wombat
Red kangaroo
Western gray kangaroo
Brush-tailed bettong
Red-necked wallaby
Parma wallaby
Sugar glider
Matschie's tree kangaroo

 

Yes it's about time haha! Last year understandable, but what about the 20 years before that lol?

 

I've added 8 species since this post (all captive), and without visiting Australia haha. Love me some marsupials!!

96. (Peroryctes raffrayana) Raffray’s Bandicoot
97. (Phalanger matabiru) Blue-eyed Cuscus
98. (Phalanger orientalis) Northern Common Cuscus
99. (Spilocuscus papuensis) Waigeou Cuscus
100. (Spilocuscus rufoniger) Black-spotted Cuscus
101. (Ailurops ursinus) Sulawesi Bear Cuscus
102. (Petaurus notatus) Krefft’s Glider
103. (Distoechurus pennatus) Feather-tailed Possum

 

Where did you see the bear cuscus from? Batu Zoo I assume

 

Theres an Individual at Memphis Zoo as well. They are also held at Berlin Tierpark and Pairi Daiza.

 

Oh, Memphis Zoo is where I saw bear cuscus. I’m not sure if the mountain bear cuscus is really valid a species but it might be just me

 

Virginia possum (only one seen in the wild)
Parma Wallaby
Red Kangaroo
Bettong
Matschie's Tree Kangaroo
Sugar Glider
Wombat of unknown species
Wallaby of unknown species
Koala

Not very many.

 

Since There’s new things I’ve seen last few years, so here I can say:
Virginia opossum
Gray short-tailed opossum
Gray four-eyed opossum
Sugar glider
Sulawesi bear cuscus
Southern Hairy-nosed wombat
Red kangaroo
Bennet wallaby
Parma wallaby
Other wallaby species??
Unfortunately not seen a lots…

 

Actually a private collection in Java.

The Bear Cuscus I saw at Batu Zoo was Mountain Bear Cuscus (Ailurops furvus), which is often recognized of late including on Mammalwatching.com's master list

 

Wait really? I need to see paper about that they're different species. I thought they're kind of population thing.

 

Here's mine

Red Kangaroo
Western Grey Kangaroo
Bennett's Wallaby
Swamp Wallaby
Yellow footed rock Wallaby
Parma wallaby
Long nosed potoroo
Goodfellows tree Kangaroo

Hopefully soon I'll see:
Koala
Brush tailed bettong
Tasmanian Devil
Eastern Quoll
New Guinea Ground Cuscus
Common Wombat
Southern Hairy Nosed Wombat
Tasmanian Wombat

 

I've added 5 species since this post (all wild), and without visiting Australia haha. Love me some marsupials!!

Chaco Fat-tailed Opossum (Thyllamys pusillus)
Common Opossum (Didelphis marsupialis)
Alston’s Mouse Opossum (Marmosa alstoni)
Mexican Mouse Opossum (Marmosa mexicana)
Central American Woolly Opossum (Caluromys derbianus)

 

20 species seen in the wild, mostly from one trip to Australia in the late 80s
Northern Black-eared Opossum (Mexico)
Northern Brown Bandicoot
Long-nosed Bandicoot
Common Brush-tailed Possum
Short-eared Brush-tailed Possum
Common Bear Cuscus (Sulawesi)
Lemuroid Ring-tailed Possum
Central Greater Glider
Herbert River Ring-tailed Possum
Eastern Ring-tailed Possum
Green Ring-tailed Possum
Sugar Glider
Musky Rat Kangaroo
Red-necked Pademelon
Red-legged Pademelon
Lumholtz’s Tree Kangaroo
Western Grey Kangaroo
Red-necked Wallaby
Agile Wallaby
Whip-tailed Wallaby

 

* = seen in the wild

Didelphidae
-Common Opossum Didelphis marsupialis*
-Virginia Opossum Didelphis virginiana*
-Gray Four-eyed Opossum Philander opossum*

Caenolestidae
N/A

Microbiotheriidae
N/A

Dasyuridae
-Tasmanian Devil Sarcophilus harrisii

Myrmecobiidae
N/A

Notoryctidae
N/A

Thylacomyidae
N/A

Peramelidae
N/A

Vombatidae
-Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat Lasiorhinus latifrons

Phascolarctidae
-Koala Phascolarctos cinereus

Acrobatidae
-Feathertail Glider Acrobates pygmaeus

Burramyidae
N/A

Petauridae
-Sugar Glider Petaurus breviceps

Phalangeridae
N/A

Pseudocheiridae
N/A

Tarsipedidae
N/A

Macropodidae
-Matschie's Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus matschiei
-Western Gray Kangaroo Macropus fuliginosus
-Eastern Gray Kangaroo Macropus giganteus
-Tammar Wallaby Notamacropus eugenii
-Bennett's Wallaby Notamacropus rufogriseus
-Common Wallaroo Osphranter robustus
-Red Kangaroo Osphranter rufus
-Swamp Wallaby Wallabia bicolor

Potoroidae
-Brush-tailed Bettong Bettongia penicillata

Hypsiprymnodontidae
N/A

17 species total, including 3 in the wild. Missing over half the families. Can you tell I've never been to Australia?

 

Dasyuridae (2):
Tasmanian Devil Sarcophilus harisii - Zooparc de Beauval 2019
Kowari Dasyuroides byrnei - Bristol Zoo Gardens 2021

Phalangeridae (1):
Ground Cuscus Phalanger gymnotis - Bristol Zoo Gardens 2021

Petauridae (1):
Sugar Glider Petaurus breviceps - Crystal Palace Park Zoo 2010

Vombatidae (1):
Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat Lasiorhinus latifrons - Longleat Safari Park 2019

Phascolarctidae (1):
Koala Phascolarctos cinereus - Longleat Safari Park 2019

Potoroidae (2):
Brush-tailed Bettong Bettongia penicillata - Shaldon Zoo 2023
Long-nosed Potoroo Potorous tridactylus - Longleat Safari Park 2019

Macropodidae (9):
Bennett's Wallaby Notamacropus rufogriseus - London Zoo 2013
Dusky Pademelon Thylogale brunii - Exmoor Zoo 2019
Eastern Grey Kangaroo Macropus giganteus - Menagerie Jardins des Plantes 2018
Goodfellow's Tree-kangaroo Dendrolagus goodfellowi - Menagerie Jardins des Plantes 2018
Matschie's Tree-kangaroo Dendrolagus matschiei - Zoo de Beauval 2019
Parma Wallaby Notamacropus parma - Dartmoor Zoo 2018
Red Kangaroo Osphanter rufus - London Zoo 2013
Swamp Wallaby Wallabia bicolor - Exmoor Zoo 2019
Western Grey Kangaroo Macropus fuliginosus - Edinburgh Zoo 2021

For a total of 17 species. Embarrassingly, the Sugar Glider and Ground Cuscus are the only possums, although hopefully an upcoming visit to Hamerton will rectify this. It is also worth noting that I only include species that I can say with absolute certainty that I have seen, which means, even though there is a strong chance that I saw them in my earlier visits to Bristol, I have excluded the Eastern Quoll. I don't want to add such a lovely species to my life list because of a vague childhood memory of seeing one. I not only missed the species at Bristol, but at Menagerie Jardins des Plantes as well, unaware that the collection held them, and, seeing their building labelled on the map with callitrichids, and with the zoo's closing time approaching, I decided to skip them, making the Eastern Quoll one of my most painful and long-overdue lifeticks.

 

Many of these are from my trips to the Berlin zoos, but there are also a lot from US zoos.

Red kangaroo
Western gray kangaroo
Eastern wallaroo
Red-necked wallaby
Parma wallaby
Sulawesi Bear cuscus
Sugar glider
Feathertail glider
Matschie’s tree kangaroo
Goodfellow’s tree kangaroo
Koala
Brush-tailed bettong
Tasmanian Devil
Virginia opossum