Trail cam snaps photo of an opossum eating ticks off of a willing deer’s head! Edit: PHOTO by Greg Swann, who told VWC that indeed the opossum was nibbling ticks!
It is too bad opossums and moose do not mix. Moose have been devastated by ticks. I was reading somewhere last week that they have killed the moose off in many southern parts of the range. I think the paper said the average Maine moose has 100,000+ ticks. Moose have not adapted to grooming ticks off like deer.
A moose car collision. Never a good thing for either party. I almost clipped one in Northern Ontario coming back from SK once.
This is a big issue in the Northeast. New Brunswick has moose fences along highways that cost big money.
So, Brer Possum eats ticks; he also eats copperheads and a full menu of other venomous snakes. And still he gets no respect.