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===Behaviour=== {{Listen|filename=Brushtail Possum.flac|title=Hissing and growling vocalisations}} The common brushtail possum is largely arboreal and nocturnal. It has a mostly solitary lifestyle, and individuals keep their distance with scent markings (urinating) and vocalisations. They usually make their dens in natural places such as tree hollows and caves, but also use spaces in the roofs of houses. While they sometimes share dens, brushtails normally sleep in separate dens. Individuals from New Zealand use many more den sites than those from Australia.<ref name="Green1984" /> Brushtail possums compete with each other and other animals for den spaces, and this contributes to their mortality. This is likely another reason why brushtail possum population densities are smaller in Australia than in New Zealand.<ref name="Tyndale2005" /> Brushtail possums are usually not aggressive towards each other and usually just stare with erect ears.<ref name="Tyndale2005" /> They vocalise with clicks, grunts, hisses, alarm chatters, guttural coughs, and screeching.<ref name="Nowak1991" /><ref name="Cronin2008" /> <gallery mode = packed heights = 180px> Trichosurus vulpecula brown form.jpg|In a tree (dark brown form) Common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) climbing with joey Scottsdale.jpg|Climbing with joey (light brown form) Common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) with joey Triabunna.jpg|Feeding with joey </gallery>
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