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It is especially important as a tool for monitoring health and disease within populations of endangered species for which little information on morbidity and mortality is known. Investigations into the causes of death and other important necropsy findings were made in a captive population of the critically endangered mountain pygmy\u2010possum (<jats:italic>Burramys parvus<\/jats:italic>).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Necropsy records from January 2000\u2013December 2013 were reviewed for all possums that had lived and died at Healesville Sanctuary (n\u2009=\u200948).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The average age of death of possums in this population was 4.7\u2009years. The most common histological change in mountain pygmy\u2010possums was varying degrees of chronic progressive kidney disease (n\u2009=\u200917). Of these cases, eight animals (47%) had histological changes suggesting the kidney disease was the likely cause of death. Other causes of death included neoplasia (n\u2009=\u20095), necrotising pancreatitis (n\u2009=\u20094), pneumonia (n\u2009=\u20092), reproductive disease (n\u2009=\u20092) and trauma (n\u2009=\u20092). No cause of death was able to be identified in 33.3% (n\u2009=\u200916) of cases. 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