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Biography: Anderson, Amy Mona

Feeding a baby possum

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Feeding a baby possum

Mona Anderson hand-feeding a baby possum at Mt Algidus Station, 1960s. Her love of Mt Algidus’s many animals informed most of her books.

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Tim Shoebridge. 'Anderson, Amy Mona', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2018. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/feeding-a-baby-possum (accessed 4 June 2026).