These Baby Woolly Opossums are kept at our spectacular facility with a great staff that is ready to serve you. We are USDA licensed and inspected for over 25+ years. They make fascinating pets for experienced exotic owners, offering playful interactions and endless curiosity. When properly socialized, they’re gentle, engaging, and entertaining to watch — like little furry acrobats on the move!

Derby’s Woolly Opossums (Caluromys derbianus) are agile, tree-loving marsupials from Central and South America. With their soft, wool-like fur and curious eyes, they’re as cute as they are clever. These nocturnal climbers thrive in warm, humid environments and love snacking on fruits, insects, and small amounts of nectar.

Key Temperament and Behavior Traits

• Solitary and Nocturnal: These opossums are naturally solitary and active at night, preferring to sleep during the day. This makes their active hours difficult to align with a typical human schedule.
• Wary and Anxious: They possess an innate wariness and anxiety around humans. While they can form a bond of dependency with caretakers if socialized from a very young age, this is not the same as the affection found in domesticated pets.
• Defensive Biting: If they feel cornered or threatened, they may bite, hiss, or growl in defense. They are not inherently aggressive but act on instinct when scared.
• Agile Climbers: They are adept climbers and explorers, requiring a large enclosure with plenty of climbing opportunities to satisfy their natural arboreal behavior.
• Limited Trainability: While some opossums can be litter-box trained, their capacity for other forms of training is very limited. They retain their wild instincts even when raised in captivity.
• Curious: They are curious animals and will explore their surroundings, which means an owner would need to "opossum-proof" their home when the pet is out of its enclosure.

Fun Facts:

• They’re one of the few opossums with prehensile tails for gripping branches.
• Females carry their young in a pouch, just like kangaroos!
• They can leap up to six feet in a single bound.
• In the wild, they help pollinate plants by carrying pollen on their fur.

If you’re after a rare, interactive exotic with charm to spare, these Woolly Opossums are a top pick. Located in south Texas we ship or offer pickup. Come see us and pick up your baby in person if that is preferred. Free health certificate for all locals, we will help with all Texas and surrrounding state's residents in applying for class 3 permits. Contact us for care details and adoption info.