But far from being an oddity, these friendly furry marsupials are in fact a type of possum known as a sugar glider.
Another oddity: When paddling through the water, a platypus keeps its eyes, ears and nostrils closed, and its duck-bill serves as an antenna, sensing the faint electric fields surrounding prey.
In those days a working mother was regarded as something of an oddity.
However, he has managed to develop a mathematical model that explains the distribution of the second digits, putting what might appear to be a statistical oddity on a more solid footing.
He's something of an oddity in the neighbourhood.
These results were based on 674 cancer deaths, so are unlikely to represent the kind of statistical oddity that can beset studies on cancer risks that sometimes create headlines.
So we looked last time at the oddity, the peculiarity, of Milton's choice of genre here, the pastoral genre.
For toothpaste I used washed-up cuttlefish bone with wild fennel seeds, an oddity for a vegan.
But that was not the only oddity of his bequest: his low opinion of academics was hard to reconcile with his zeal for a university education.
He suddenly realized the oddity of her remark and blushed.
I was puzzled by the oddity of her behaviour.