Whilst sitting down to lunch with the fam on Sunday, a strange creature didst appear upon the deck. M yells "what the heck is that thing???" and we came over to the window to take a look. A strange and uncommonly unkempt creature, to be sure. "I have no idea" I said, reaching for the laptop to hit WikiPedia for assistance. We didn't grab the camera fast enough to take a picture, but it was pretty slow, so we got a good look at it. I searched the web for pictures of every kind of rodent I could think of, but nothing seemed to match. We called it the Mystery Rodent. Then, later, someone reminded me that perhaps it wasn't a rodent after all... And, voila - a marsupial it was actually. A largish, very ratty-looking opossum was the answer to this mystery. We don't see too many of them (alive anyway) but they're around. Add yet another animal to add to the pretty long list we have here at the zoo we like to call our home.