What is this?

August 14, 2012 by SWestfall3

Not the penny.

Posted in Identify the species | 11 Comments

on August 14, 2012 at 10:20 pm Luka's Mom

Naked mole rat pup?
on August 14, 2012 at 10:44 pm Steve Bodio

Possum newborn?
on August 14, 2012 at 11:16 pm DesertWindHounds

Short-tailed opossum.
on August 14, 2012 at 11:47 pm Reality Based

I was always kind of jealous that other mammals could give birth in what appeared to be such a painless manner…and these little guys have to find their way to the pouch all by themselves too!
on August 15, 2012 at 1:47 am Ogre Magi

It is a cocktail weenie with legs
on August 15, 2012 at 4:22 am megrim43

Marsupial newborn – impossible to differentiate species at that stage

Elizabeth
- on August 15, 2012 at 9:09 am massugu
  
  Agreed, but since that seems to be a US penny in the background I’m banking on Didelphis virginiana, the Virginia opossum too.
  - on August 15, 2012 at 9:23 am Steve Bodio
    
    Massagu– my logic exactly.
on August 15, 2012 at 7:53 am Jen Robinson

could be most any newborn marsupial
on August 16, 2012 at 10:22 am Rathunters

A Marsian?
on August 19, 2012 at 5:48 am Peter Dawson

kangaroo joey, I reckon.

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