They are certainly not native to the islands of the Lesser Antilles, where they came from the South American continent, a long time ago. They have a marsupial pocket.ĭuring the tertiary era, there were Didelphidae in Europe, but nowadays, they are found only on the American continent where they nest in hollow trees or in holes dug among grasses and bushes. Their hind limbs are a little longer than the forelimbs. They have a stocky body and a more or less pointed muzzle. Our Manicou belongs to the family of Didelphidae or Sarigues, which are small marsupials reaching at most the size of a cat and, often do not exceed that of a rat. Guadeloupe like all the northern islands does not have it.
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“… This animal has something of the rat, the fox, the monkey and the pig, that which I live was a little larger than a cat, all the hair which covers it was of a very brown gray, and he felt so strongly the book that he was sick to his heart, he had the long test like that of a fox, which was a little like the groüin of a pig, his mouth was tall, full of cat teeth, and even two whiskers like those of cats: he had a tail almost twice as long as his body, half hairy, half peeled like that of a rat the habitâs assured me that it was so strong, that it hung by the end from the branches of the trees, and darted from tree to tree, with marvelous lightness … “Īll these animals in one, it is our Manicou also known on the American continent under the name of Opossum, the only representative of the order of Marsupials in the Antilles where its area of distribution extends in all the Small Antilles, from Grenada to Dominica, including therefore Martinique. Strange animal, “awful monster” and bizarre if one believes the description of R.
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