From Naidu Kumpatla
Zoom in on this one! 🔎
Caught this adorable Honey Possum mid-meal on a stunning scarlet banksia. 🌸 If you look closely, you can actually see its long tongue reaching for the nectar! While it looks big in this macro shot, they are actually incredibly tiny, measuring just 6.5 to 9 centimeters long!
Fun fact: They are the world’s only strictly nectar-eating mammals besides bats. Their specialized, brush-tipped tongue acts like a tiny sponge, which definitely gets a workout since they drink roughly their own body weight in nectar every single day! 🌸👅✨
I certainly love our opossums here, and I could surely go for some more North American marsupials if they’d be anything like this cute little flower snacker!