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HONOLULU - A postal worker discovered a 15-pound opossum moving around inside a trash bin at Honolulu International Airport, the second such animal found at the airport in the past three months, state agriculture officials said. "We're not sure how it got in the trash bin," said Janelle Saneishi, spokeswoman for the state Department of Agriculture. "It is in an offloading area for surface mail. It's possible it came in on a container and somehow found its way to the trash bin." A marsupial native to the mainland, opossums are distinctive for their long, rat-like, prehensile tails which allows them...