Opossum Fact #14: The way it gives birth and raises its young isn’t the only thing that’s interesting about the opossums reproductive life. Females have two vaginal tracts and two uteri, and males in turn have a forked or bifurcated penis. This is fairly typical for marsupials, but when European colonizers first landed in North America centuries ago, they didn’t know what to make of the confusing genitalia.