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Striped Possum (image courtesy Neil Hewett, Daintree Rainforest P/L). The rainforest canopy is generally viewed as an inaccessible, unexplored frontier. The animals that dwell here forage in an environment that we know very little about. Striped Possums are one of these delightful arboreal inhabitants who harvest the forest’s flowers, fruits and insects, as well as the native bee honey (when they can find it). They are the ‘wood-chippers’ of the forest who tend to demolish old logs and branches while searching for the grubs within.