Possum Attacks Young Raccoon - Lesson Learned

Opossums are generally docile creatures that go about their business with minimal fuss - unless backed into a corner. A raccoon kit out with mom is about to learn a valuable lesson!
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[@ross_spirou_photography]

What I love about trail cameras is the way they literally open a window into a world we'd otherwise know very little about and this footage is a perfect example and thanks for sharing!

[@WhistlesToAnimals]

And why I should get one. But I've made the mistake of buying the wrong camera once (just sold it yesterday) so it's a chore just to shop for electronics because you have to learn about all the features and figure out what you want and need. For those that have limitless money, they could just buy the best with every feature including features they'll never use, and shop that way. lol

[@ross_spirou_photography]

@@WhistlesToAnimals There are many types with even more features and I use 5 cameras, 3 from one brand and 2 camparktc06 which was recommended by this channel and they are superb cameras and not as expensive as others.

[@MyBackyardBirding]

@@ross_spirou_photography I really love the TC06's, especially the sound which is often lacking. I had one submerged during Hurricane Ian and it survived - more on that later.

[@ross_spirou_photography]

@@MyBackyardBirding It was your review that got me to look them up and now I have two. 😃

[@archenema6792]

That "jaws wide open" defensive stance the possum takes looks very similar to the surviving footage of the now extinct Tasmanian tiger.

[@MyBackyardBirding]

Yes, good eye, and it is a marsupial - one of the few outside of Australia and the only one in North America. BB

[@marialane1805]

What a beautiful voice you have! Truly, it is a gift and you are using it! Thank you!

[@MyBackyardBirding]

Wow, thank you for the nice compliment! BB

[@maryclarafjare]

This is fascinating.. the baby raccoon is so curious that it actually looks out again to see the possum

[@MyBackyardBirding]

Yes, I love how you can sort of read the expressions on their faces. So curious and intelligent. BB

[@higgsbonbon]

While a tense confrontation, this is still quite cute.

[@MyBackyardBirding]

True, you can really read the facial expressions of the young raccoon, especially when he comes back to look at that possum creature :-) BB

[@HanginInSF]

I get a lot of possum and racoons in my yard. They take little nips at each other but basically coexist peacefully.

[@proudatheist2042]

Fascinating thay you mentioned that the possum was at the base of the saw palmetto tree. Saw palmetto is a legendary her in regards to helping men ein particular with prostate problems.

[@sloanekuria3249]

The possum never closed his mouth and sprang away immediately, definitely seemed like more of a scare technique than an actual attack. So interesting to see their body language, thank you!

[@rhondaroberts2223]

Such amazing little creatures! I love to see possums wandering about at night! They're so cute, I think!!

[@MyBackyardBirding]

Me too! BB

[@laurah.7696]

I really like possums too.

[@NoNo-ks4gg]

Yeah, they're cute until one of them gives you rabies or when your little Fluffy never makes it back in the house! #wildanimals #rWIlD #4areason

[@thisworldfakeashell4098]

Those things are hideous!😂

[@ronalds9478]

@@NoNo-ks4gg You are mis informed about them. More than 99 percent don't carry rabies as they are practically immune to it, there are only a few recorded cases out of tens of millions of these animals. They don't go after cats at all and of course not dogs. They are really sort of a wimp of a animal and will make a tough display like in the video but have nothing to back it up with.

[@justfun985]

I can remember my uncles 2 dogs chewing on a possum (supposedly dead, Yes, that's where the phrase playing possum comes from) and the cracking, crunching, sounds from that. The possum got up and ran off later after they got tired of it.

[@CK-jd7wo-test]

Maybe next time the baby raccoon encounters a possum it will take the wiser approach than it did this time.... maybe it will play possum.

[@LegacyEvoAce]

Young one couldn't get behind momma fast enough 😆

[@tonyprice2256]

We have a couple adult female cats that are used to going out and coming in whenever they want. So during the warmer months, we used to leave the front door wide open all day and night. At one point, we had a little nightly visitor as a result. It was a small young opossum attacked by the kitty food indoors. It would come in for a snack on the kitty food, and then leave. After about ten days he or she never came back. I was a little surprised how tolerant the cats were with the little visitor. There was no hissing or any aggressive behavior at all. They would just calmly watch the opossum eat a little of their food. The opossum saw me a couple times, and soon realized i was no threat either, and one time casually walked right past me and one the cats right back out through the open doorway, onto the porch, down the steps and out of sight into the darkness. Thank you for posting another great video of this interaction.

[@MyBackyardBirding]

Thanks, Great story. Have you seen the new video about opossum tails - kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3e7o2ewmJicfM0 BB

[@maryclarafjare]

Great video, also love the narration. Can't get over how giant the possum's mouth is!! (I knew aboht the sharp teeth.)

[@FollowThomas]

That's so cool to see how wild animals interact with each other at night and we got a front row seat. 👍🙂

[@garywebb8086]

I've heard a few of these tussles out my back window, and ALWAYS after midnight. 😄

[@Sweetyhide]

I heard a commotion one night that sounded like a person screaming...almost. Was the scariest sound. I wonder if it was a cat, possum, or raccoon making the sound because we have plenty of all roaming the woods. All I know is someone was fighting.

[@critterallywithjohnernest.]

Nicely captured events! I will be releasing a short video today on an opossum that has been living in my garage for a year now. She got into a fight with 2 stray cats last night and had both cats packing their bags in under a minute. Then she went back to her garbage can blanket bed to sleep like it was no big deal! They truly are awesome animals and are my favorite to have around! I have been watching your videos for awhile and am Never disappointed. You have a good variety and always entertaining! Thank you for the wonderful footage my friend!🥰👍👍

[@user-gg6lr2lc1v]

Great voice! U sound like Leon the Lobsters dad!! Really cool channel ❤

[@MyBackyardBirding]

Thank you! 😃

[@ronnetteharvey6781]

It didn't look like the possum actually bit it looked like a threatening gesture. Fear of injury is a good defense.

[@michaelsimko7694]

WOW! I've never seen any video of an opossum attacking a raccoon!

[@MyBackyardBirding]

It was surprising, but the little raccoon backed him into a corner. BB

[@jkody]

NO CROSSUM POSSUM HISSSS!

[@dannisan77]

The raccoon was too curious for its own good. One bitten, twice shy.

[@LuciTulcea]

The micro thylacine was very feisty!😁

[@ontherun1957]

The young racoon came back the 2nd time and was like "are you my dada"..

[@MyBackyardBirding]

The old learning curve!

[@barbaragremaud3499]

“Heavily and boldly” ✅🙂

[@madamm2026]

Great info and superb shots! I really enjoy Your channel.

[@MyBackyardBirding]

Thank you very much! BB

[@blakespower]

I always feel sad when I see dead possums or raccoons on the side of the road, I wonder if they lived by me, especially possums since they are mostly solitary

[@mojowaxwork4242]

great footage and narration.

[@edwinreveron870]

Nice video, but I disagree on the bite force statement, I think possums appear to have very strong bite forces, for their size, since I seen a video of one killing a skunk with just one clamp of his jaws....

[@walterschneider8033]

the bite strength differs closer to the joint. they crack through bones to get at marrows and smaller finds. it could be compulsion. but the bites ive gotten from both has possums regularly breaking skin and thats by accident. theyre not ones to carry their young in mouth so caution and gentleness isnt necessary. the raccoons, unless agitated or aggressive dont hurt but grab with teeth. I wouldnt trust my favorite possums with my fingers but would confidently put my hand in the mouth of a number of familar raccoons knowing they understand what hand and food are. i respect what they are. i wouldnt casually allow a possum bite. They eat all manner of things without concern. that which would make you wretch will pass their tongue with determination. so apart from possible disease there is infection to consider in the bacteria found in corpses. but that's why you want possums about, diminishing the dead and rotten to few bones or little at all. its why i recommend shrews about also, for their low standards for food.

[@MyBackyardBirding]

That reminds me of a story, I once tried out a famous bobcat lure paste to get bobcats to come to my trail camera, and I mean that stuff was putrid and rotten. I was literally gagging as I pasted some on a log in front of my camera. Later that night I got a video of a possum eating every bit of it off the log and licking the wood! BB

[@walterschneider8033]

@@MyBackyardBirding Lionel, a disabled male, was found out dismembering a 'Writhing' squirrel. Was following him on his route home when he held his nose high and followed it under the thickets to pit his teeth to work. Its what they do. They have high standards in junk food though, changing their tastes from evening to next. I'm accustomed to scent. Grease traps and garbage.

[@nicholaspaz]

That was a stress relief yawn, maybe?

[@MyBackyardBirding]

Could be - his system was flooded with stress causing hormones - classic fight or flight - but he went right back to his spot. BB

[@avonavians2860]

I doubt that the youngster got any injuries. Carnivorans have very thick hides that protect them while they fight and play. Our basset hound puppies rip and tear at each other all of the time without drawing blood.

[@blainechappell5383]

Looked more like a yawn from the opossum

[@lx1190]

Seems like the everyday struggle of parenthood: Mother Raccoon deciding that, you know what, this time sonney boy deserved what he got -- & as long as he's safe, kept it movin', rather than her having to spend the rest of the nice morning in epic, bloody combat to the death that she'd, hopefully, win in the end, for the third time this week

[@user-gg6lr2lc1v]

Opossums eat copperheads n coral snakes! Have plenty at the country! My favorite Opossum is named Handsome! ❤❤❤him

[@rotorairgroup8409]

The opposum was possesed

[@karenbearden6198]

Beware of grinning Possums!

[@LHall-xf2dp]

Pedant here. That's not a possum. It's an opossum. Possums are from Australia and are an entirely different animal.

[@MyBackyardBirding]

As I said in the narration, it is an opossum but is commonly called a possum in the US. BB

[@keithstewart8613]

Possums are not docile creatures. I’ve seen them viciously attack, kill, and eat skunks.

[@user-rl8yp6it7s]

так это ж енот!

[@brianson2733]

Check it out! It’s Moxxie!

[@comepuchas990]

1.10.24😮

[@thatsoundsaboutright7483]

I'm sorry but I wish thay possum would torn that raccoon up...hate ppl who make them pets n I hate them period....get a dog like a normal person

[@Glostahdude]

Lucky the Opossum didn’t clamp down! Kinda just barred his teeth and rammed him with his mouth open.