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VIDEO: Mama Opossum Carries 8 Opossum Babies Through Astoria Yard

Baby on board — or eight of them, to be exact.

An opossum was caught on video traipsing through a yard in Astoria with eight little opossum babies hanging off her back.

The video, which was uploaded to YouTube and first reported by Gothamist, shows the mother marsupial walking through the grass while the pack of little ones dangle off of her. The animal family then disappears through a hole in a fence.

The user who posted the video — titled "Move over PizzaRat!" — affectionately nicknamed the creature "OctoPossum."

"Typical morning, drinking coffee ... look out of the window & see our neighborhood opossum taking her 8 that's right EIGHT opossum offspring for a ride," YouTube user gene gray wrote.

It's not the first time opossums have been documented doing interesting things in the city; one was rescued from a roll gate after wandering into a gourmet cheese shop in 2014.