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This animal is nothing more than a supped-up coyote. 70% coyote and 30% wolf. I live here where they are, what few there are, and it's nothing more than a fleecing of America. Over 100 million dollars spent since the project began decades ago, over 40 years if I remember right. For what? Less than 25 "wild coywolves". The "red wolf" has always been nothing more than a hybrid. Americans are so ignorant on this subject. The only way to have a wild "red wolf", population, is to totally wipe out it's brother from another mother, the coyote; and that my friend, is impossible. Everywhere man has tried to eliminate the coyote, we have failed. So the "coywolf", aka "red wolf" will simply be bred out of existence in every place the coyote exists. All who support this stupid venture and waste of taxpayer money, are either ignorant of the subject or purposely trying to deceive people for their own gain, ....OR....just idiot's. We are sick of it here in eastern NC. May God expose them all.

My backyard in Dallas Texas is a virtual haven for opossums. I love 'em. They have gotten used to me and even approach me. My backyard experiences actually influenced me into volunteering at a nearby wildlife center. I am a children's entertainer and I am working on a show to be performed in schools and libraries about misunderstood animals featuring an opossum ventriloquist puppet. Also working on a children's book about a disabled bunny rabbit and an opossum named "Opie Awesome The Awesome Opossum". I often get approached by folks who tell me that I've changed their perception and appreciation of North America's only marsupial.

I am in central Georgia in an older home and every year we would welcome spring with the arrival of our chimney swifts-last 2 years they come but don’t best - am so happy you are providing a habitat for them, thank you

Thanks for doing this

Great info! Thanks for sharing (-:

please be careful about posting about the opossum hole! hunters abound. there was a beautiful lone seawolf who was photographed for years causing a hunter to track her just for game. please do allow wildlife personal privacy & educate people without risking animals' lives.

great program

I’m was feeding raccoons on my front steps facing the river, then opossum showed up and one night they both came to eat, I put out two bowls of of food, now it’s just the opossum that comes, sometimes it’s two or three. I love the opossum, my dog encountered one in her dog yard, went to it, then left it alone. Thanks very much for sharing your story and video, I greatly appreciate it.

This is truly amazing, thank you very much for sharing so much knowledge in such underrated species of nature <3

After encounter of a opossum visiting my bedroom so after he or she has mated will they come back for food they were on a special plate

This means a druid if i ever seen it

Why are there not more events centered around bat conservation in NC? I live in Charlotte and the nature centers here don't even have bat houses. The farms don't have bat barns.. GA parks have bat boxes. NC never gets recognized during bat week yet places like NY and FL and CA have bat festivals for bay conservation. Heck even Ohio has one this year.

Mr Big Head 😂😂😂

Brown snake with orange belly S. Carolina Triangle nose. What kind?

Would have been better if the woke lecturer didn't attack white men.

I can't tell you how much I love and appreciate this video... your videos are absolutely fascinating. Opossums are highly misunderstood and underappreciated. I happened to raise a baby that needed rescuing as it was crying and surrounded by cats. My husband and I raised her til she passed sadly 😢 after a year. She was so special and I gave her a wonderful, comfortable life. She taught me so much more than I ever could imagine. I experienced something very few ever. I am still grieving over her. 💔🕊 RIP🕊 My sweet Joey. 4-16-24.❤

that's funny that "they' tell us what the continents looked like millions of years ago in a 'mater of fact' way

I love this guy’s sense of humor.

This is by far one of the best videos I have seen on opossums! Your enthusiasm is contagious! My daughter and I picked up two babies off of a deceased mother just a month ago and they are growing and thriving so much! They are fun to watch and interact with.

What a sight to see in a lifetime. Thank you for the video and your dedication to inform nature’s lovers. 🌻☺️

Thank you…..we have possums by LA Airport (LAX) I love them!!!

This was such a fantastic find! Loved his enthusiasm and knowledge - such a cool dude :)

❤GWS❤

I like snakes.

Lmao got me with the Jed clampit comment lmao

Any chance these would ever make it to Charlotte NC?

Great video!

Beavers saved my 10 acre small lake/pond - for real. I had invasive lily-pads/weeds (that are destroying several small watersheds in Clark/Cowlitz county) infesting my watershed. Also, I had a new neighbor bucket scrape 2 acres of a very small 2.5 acre parcel on the hill adjacent to my house which caused flooding (was completely against land use code for riparian zone type 3 zones). The beaver fell 6 mature alders, built a levee in the stream feeding my pond 3 ft high, 70 feet across and 4 -5 feet wide SERIOUSLY NO exaggeration. CREATED A 1 ACRE 3 FEET HOLDING POND which stopped the rapid flooding and perked the water. Then they ate 90% of the lily pads and snacked on a bunch of invasive weeds. Awesome animal - and to think my neighbors recommended to trap them out because of some bank erosion when it turned out to be nutria - lol - the beaver got rid of them too. Love these guys - they totally won me over. I have 4 generations living in one huge lodge made from an old Hemlock stump, two small stick lodges and 3-4 beaver burrows with about a dozen of them living here and they are a very social group. Long reply but these animals really made me change the way I think about wildlife for the better and I can't imagine harming such wonderful spirits - btw I am an outdoorsman and I hunt and fish for the table.

My kids and I watched this as part of our science lesson today, and we enjoyed every minute!!! I would truly love recommendations from the speaker for favorite books to read, whether kids books or adult books, that the audience could explore for more information. Thank you to NCWF for this spectacular presentation!

I saw 1 possum walk around on my yard this morning.

Those Damb BEVERLY HILL BILLYS ! LOL

How cute!!!!

Very informative ❤I have my very own barred owl in my backyard!! I’ll have to visit the Raptor Center soon.

I was just thinking yesterday about the campaign that used to be no Wetlands no seafood. Also you're right about the netting IT Supplies shrimp but it also kills other forms of life

This is the first time hearing of your group. Enjoying the presentation. I try to post on iNaturalist but often can’t get pictures. This year I saw my first hummingbird a Ruby-throated hummingbird on 3-10-2024 as it stopped to enjoy some nectar. I finally put up my one feeder and saw one at it 3-20-23. Normally once they show up I see them on a regular basis not so much this year. Maybe they’re finding some of the new native plants and i have just missed seeing them. Suwannee County, Florida

This is such interesting and useful information. I hope I can catch a swarm of honey bees sometime.

SAY "NO" to Mosquito Fogging DEATH SPRAY. Mosquito fogging kills ALLLLL insects on contact. ALL INSECTS. The NCDA fines for Drift are basically ZERO and Fogging Companies are never held accountable for drift. It is all to discourage citizens from reporting and totally to the benefit of the Mosquito Death Fogger. The applicators NEVER EVER apply in a compliant way. My experience with my neighbors and the companies they used NONE applied as required and people applying changed monthly. Use BTI dunks and create a BTI Dunk Mosquito Larvae Trap buckets. Use common sense tips and DO NOT Mosquito Fog. FYI, I made Mosquito Larvae Trap Buckets and gave to all my neighbors and STOPPED them from using Mosquito Fog.

This was a great video to watch for myself and my family. We are originally from NY and not used to having this type of wildlife to enjoy and or be weary of also having 3 small dogs. My first instinct was to be scared of them and for my little guys. But I wanted to learn about them and defend my dogs that way. I love wildlife and coyotes included in think they are beautiful but no I haven’t lost a pet to them and I know that would change things. So learning about them in more detail will help me and help them coexist. Thank you for this education !

This should be shown in schools

If you watch enough interviews with conservation biologists that track and follow deer and squirrel, that don't eat meat, some of them have documented both eating meat such as birds. So sometimes herbivores will eat meat. As far as I know, basal Boreoeutheria, the ancestral clade of Laurasiatheria and Euarchontaglire was omnivorous. And even before that around Theria and Eitheria, precursor clades to Placentalia which is before Boreoeutheria, fossils of Eomaia and Juramaia certainly didn't have herbivore dentition.

Will these PURPLE MARTINS EAT FIRE ANTS????

Great work! Thank you for protecting, advocating and caring for your waterways!

Very incorrect about Indians living the same 1000 years ago as they did when Lawson did. It’s extremely sad to hear Native History lost, the first waves of diseases from early Spanish explorers Gordillo, Ayllon, Narvaez, DeSoto completely eradicated the Mississippian esc cultures of the Carolinas. The tribes that rose up in the late 1500s where a post apocalyptic people. Chicora’s tales of Duhare are true.

poor opossum, I feel so sorry for them! You could have at least fed him. He already has a very hard life and wounds on his nose and paws😢

Beautiful loved it and love opposums . They are precious, People need to know how beneficial these precious animals are to our environment😘

While this was an interesting presentation with lots of good info, it was NOT a virtual tour of the Suther prairie. From the title I expected video footage taken in the prairie. However, the entire hour long video contains maybe 5 still images from the prairie and no video footage. Thank you, NCWF, for all the great work you do, but it would be nice if you could film an ACTUAL tour of the Suther prairie someday. Perhaps collect a few minutes of video from each season and compile a 10 film for youtube. I am in the process of restoring a native tallgrass prairie in Stanly County and would be interested to learn more about the flora of the Suther prairie.

So informative! I learned a ton from this. Thank you

This was really interesting and support the work you guys are doing.

What a valuable video! I'm thrilled to have found it now even though I'm two years late.