Possums eat a huge amount of vegetation and are also known to eat chicks and eggs.
New Zealand native birds have been greatly affected by predation. For millions of years, they lived in an environment without...
Possums are one of New Zealand's biggest pests. Currently they are controlled by poisoning and trapping, but this is expensive...
Scientists in New Zealand investigated whether a roundworm parasite could be used to deliver a hormone toxin to possums.
A parasitic worm that naturally infects possums could be the key to controlling possum numbers in New Zealand.
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