A four-inch marsupial with a tail longer than its body just got better dating infrastructure than most of us.
Hamster-Sized 'Burramys' Had to Cross a Major Roadway During Mating Season. So Scientists Built Them a 'Tunnel of Love'
The mountain pygmy-possum, a four-inch marsupial feared extinct until its 1966 rediscovery at Mount Hotham, faced a mating crisis in the Victorian Alps: the Great Alpine Road split the habitat of roughly 150 possums at Little Mount Higginbotham, separating high-altitude females from lower-slope males. Australian environment officials built a nearly 50-foot tunnel under the road, and over two summers they recorded 30 possums using it, some crossing in about 15 seconds. Fewer than 2,000 remain in the wild.
Source: Hamster-Sized 'Burramys' Had to Cross a Major Roadway During Mating Season. So Scientists Built Them a 'Tunnel of Love' — Good Good Good
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