A one-month-old ring tailed possum sits on the hand of a volunteer
after it's mother abandoned it in a bush fire affected suburb in Sydney
January 16, 2002. Australian firefighters battling the fiercest
bushfires around Sydney in about eight years on Wednesday finally
declared an end to the crisis after heavy rains overnight doused most
of the remaining blazes. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne

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