This shows typical brushtail possum courtship behavior, including the male's vocalisations.

Dexter (a male brushtail) carefully approaches Kiki (a female brushtail) making placating sounds. This fails to appease Kiki, who then chases him off.

Dexter makes two different vocalisations; a tff-tff-tff-tff-tff sound, similar to a juvenile distress call, and a clicking sound. Listen carefully for the clicking; it's known as "buccal clicking" and it's made by clicking the teeth together. It sounds something like two pencils being tapped together sharply, and isn't like any sort of noise you'd think an animal would make.

Brushtail possum courtship consists of many episodes like this before mating takes place. To see Dexter and Kiki actually mating, check out the video: [ Ссылка ]

Filmed by Xesce.

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