Thread: Unusual possum tail ??

yep - more colours out there than you can shake a stick at - and I've never seen an albino or near albino with a decent skin, they all look like they got mange. Did get quire a few in the one area that had tails like that - so family genetics at work.
The wierdest ones I got, again all in the same area were a 'watery' colour - not albino but very pale - and again they all had thin fur which was probably ticks or mites.
I've also caught possums that were on the edge of bald but only around Rotorua - fur agent said they were pumice mites, but I always reckoned they were just standard mite. Those ones died in the trap, once inactive the cold killed them.