Heck, that link goes so far as to have a personal experience where they think an opposum brought ticks with Lyme disease from a dear with it that affected their dog.
My one question is, would it be that easy to see a tick in an opposum's stomach contents?
Australian possums are scarier than what ever these things are, the fuckers sound like demons outside your window and wake you in the middle of the night
Yeah, apparently marsupials first arose in North America and then migrated by some mechanism to Australia. Placental mammals arrived or also arose on North America as well which is why our marsupials are so...just opossums. But there were no mammals on Australia so they spread to many niches.
They are in truth one of the dumbest creatures on the planet.
I once successfully slowed down just in time for one to make it across the road, just for it to immediately turn around and dart under my tires once I started speeding back up.