the Virginia Opossum.
<a href="http://www.possumnetwork.com/" target="_blank">http://www.possumnetwork.com/</a>
By the way. What is the difference between a possum and an opossum?
Question: How do you wake up a possum playing possum? Answer: Throw it into water.
Opossums rarely hang by their tails, despite the cartoons (and the illustration on this page!).
Consider the opossum. If wounded while playing dead, it bleeds very little, if at all.
Poisonous snakes that live where opossums live -- rattlesnakes, copperheads -- can't kill opossums. Poisonous snakes that don't live where opossums live -- cobras -- CAN kill opossums.
What's the difference between an opossum and a possum? Possum is an abbreviation for opossum. I know it's only one letter short...but that's all it takes to be an abbreviation.
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