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An opossum has been spotted looking a tad confused as it entered its new tropical house at a zoo in Odense, Germany.

The opossum looks either confused, incensed or incredulous - or perhaps a combination of all three. Given the creature's crazed expression, one can only imagine what scenes it is viewing from the ramp it is perched on, presumably bleakness of Dostoevskian proportions. The marsupial's bewilderment can perhaps be forgiven though, as it was being moved to a new tropical house in the zoo and was out of its comfort zone.

Opossums are the largest order of marsupials in the Western Hemisphere. They are also commonly called possums, though that term is also applied to Australian fauna of the suborder Phalangeriformes. The Virginia Opossum was the first animal to be named an opossum; usage of the name was published in 1610. The word opossum comes from the Algonquian aposoum, meaning "white beast". Opossums probably diverged from the basic South American marsupials in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene.

Their unspecialized biology, flexible diet and reproductive strategy make them successful colonizers and survivors in diverse locations and conditions.

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