Editing Common brushtail possum (section)

===Food and foraging===
The common brushtail possum can adapt to numerous kinds of vegetation but it is largely [[omnivorous]].<ref name="Tyndale2005" /> It prefers ''[[Eucalyptus]]'' leaves, but also eats flowers, shoots, fruits, and seeds.<ref name="Tyndale2005" /> It may also consume animal matter such as insects, birds' eggs and chicks, and other small vertebrates.<ref name="EoL" /> Brushtail possums may eat three or four different plant species during a foraging trip, unlike some other arboreal marsupials, such as the [[koala]] and the [[greater glider]], which focus on single species. The brushtail possum's rounded molars cannot cut ''Eucalyptus'' leaves as finely as more specialised feeders. They are more adapted to crushing their food, which enables them to chew fruit or herbs more effectively. The brushtail possums' caecum lacks internal ridges and cannot separate coarse and fine particles as efficiently as some other arboreal marsupials.<ref name="Tyndale2005" /> The brushtail possum cannot rely on ''Eucalyptus'' alone to provide sufficient protein.<ref name="Wellard1981" /> Its more generalised and mixed diet, however, does provide adequate nitrogen.<ref name="Harris1985" />