Mom opossum calling to babies

This mother opossum was recovering nicely from a head injury when she developed an infection in her pouch, which also was affecting her babies with systemic infections.  In order to treat both mom and babies, the babies had to be separated from their mother to allow her pouch to heal, and so they could be treated with antibiotics without constantly removing them from the pouch and putting them back.  Luckily the babies were old enough to learn to drink formula from a dish and are doing great!  Two of the nine babies heard mom calling during their antibiotic treatment and went looking for her - one little guy started doing laps!  Hopefully once everyone is healed up, the family can be reunited.

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