Tim Laman / Village of Chandpai on the Passur River, where shrimp fry fishing to supply shrimp for the shrimp ponds is the main industry. Villagers live in simple mud and thatch huts that are washed away by high waters every year. Sunderbans, Khulna Province, Bangladesh, April 2006

Martin Willis / Common Brush-tailed Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) at night, Cradle Mountain-Lake Saint Clair National Park, Tasmania, Australia

Martin Willis / Common Brush-tailed Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) at night, Cradle Mountain-Lake Saint Clair National Park, Tasmania, Australia

Martin Willis / Common Brush-tailed Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) in tree at night, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia

Piotr Naskrecki / Common Cuscus (Phalanger orientalis) in rainforest, New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Chien Lee / Moluccan Cuscus (Phalanger ornatus), Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia

Chien Lee / Short-tailed Spotted Cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus) juvenile, Nabire, Indonesia

Chien Lee / Short-tailed Spotted Cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus) juvenile climbing, Nabire, Indonesia

Chien Lee / Short-tailed Spotted Cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus) male, Nabire, Indonesia

Chien Lee / Short-tailed Spotted Cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus) male, Nabire, Indonesia

Chien Lee / Short-tailed Spotted Cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus) juvenile hanging on branch, Nabire, Indonesia

Chien Lee / Short-tailed Spotted Cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus) juvenile feeding on flower, Nabire, Indonesia

Konrad Wothe / Common Brush-tailed Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) curled up in a ball sleeping, Atherton Tableland, Queensland, Australia

Gerry Ellis / Short-tailed Spotted Cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus) male, Papua New Guinea

Colin Monteath / Warning sign of cyanide bait drop to kill introduced Common Brush-tailed Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula), Haast Pass, New Zealand

Shaun Barnett / Common Brush-tailed Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) nursing, Coromandel, New Zealand

Mitsuaki Iwago / Common Brush-tailed Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) introduced for fur is now the top pest which damages forests and kills birds, Australia

Gerry Ellis / Short-tailed Spotted Cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus) young near Kivaumai Village, Papua New Guinea

Konrad Wothe / Spotted Cuscus (Phalanger maculatus) portrait in tree, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia

Konrad Wothe / Spotted Cuscus (Phalanger maculatus) portrait in tree, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia

Konrad Wothe / Spotted Cuscus (Phalanger maculatus) portrait in tree, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia

Mark Moffett / Spotted Cuscus (Phalanger maculatus) in tree, Papua New Guinea

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Common Brush-tailed Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula), New Zealand

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Dwarf Cuscus (Strigocuscus celebensis) mother and young in the rainforest, Tangkoko-Dua Saudara Nature Reserve, Sulawesi Indonesia

Gerry Ellis / Spotted Cuscus (Phalanger maculatus) near Kivaumai Village, Papua New Guinea

Gerry Ellis / Short-tailed Spotted Cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus) juvenile near Kivaumai Village, Papua New Guinea

Gerry Ellis / Common Brush-tailed Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) portrait, south and east Australia

Gerry Ellis / Common Cuscus (Phalanger orientalis) caught by hunting party for bush meat, tropical rainforest, southeastern slope, Mt Bosavi, Papua New Guinea

Patricio Robles Gil / Short-tailed Spotted Cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus) portrait in tree, Papua New Guinea

Mark Moffett / Common Cuscus (Phalanger orientalis) portrait, Papua New Guinea

Tui De Roy / Common Brush-tailed Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) introduced for fur is now top pest which damages forests and kills birds, Golden Bay, New Zealand