During the hot weather, when the temperature reached over 44C in our garden, we noticed that a possum, who had moved from his nearby nest mid afternoon, sat huddled in the low branches of a tree and was in dire heat distress. We sprinkled the possum lightly with water with the fine spray from the hose pipe and sprayed the leaves on the tree around him from which he drank. We checked on him regularly throughout the afternoon, spraying more water as needed. Around 5.00 pm another possum appeared in the tree and sat near him. In the early evening three possums appeared around the pool and drank from the pool water. The heat distressed possum in the tree gradually began to move about and later that evening, as the temperature dropped, disappeared high into the gum trees.
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