Venator,

Unless you see one outside of this continent, then it might be lost and need help finding its way home.

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    WamGams,

    They are in truth one of the dumbest creatures on the planet.

    I once successfully slowed down just in time for one to make it across the road, just for it to immediately turn around and dart under my tires once I started speeding back up.

    embed_me,
    @embed_me@programming.dev avatar

    I’ve seen kittens exhibit similar behaviour

    ivanafterall,
    ivanafterall avatar

    If I see one, I'm trying to domesticate it.

    MeDuViNoX,

    AND their brains are as smooth as eggs!

    robocall,
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    Eggs are so tasty 😋

    x4740N,

    Australian possums are scarier than what ever these things are, the fuckers sound like demons outside your window and wake you in the middle of the night

    cm0002,

    Australia is just where the rest of the world dumped a lot of the scarier versions of their local animals

    Ragnarok314159,

    It’s also nature’s maximum security prison. New Zealand is the guard shack.

    robocall,
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    I believe opossums are America’s only marsupial.

    captain_aggravated,
    @captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Yeah, apparently marsupials first arose in North America and then migrated by some mechanism to Australia. Placental mammals arrived or also arose on North America as well which is why our marsupials are so…just opossums. But there were no mammals on Australia so they spread to many niches.

    Texas_Hangover,

    Yeah, but yall’s possums are adorable, ours look like they’re about to stab you for meth money.

    x4740N,

    Our possoms are cute but deadly depending on how they feel

    So they can decide to be cute or try and fuck you up

    Kolanaki,
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    The only time I ran into a wild one, I couldn’t ignore it because it was in my garage.

    goldteeth,

    found one in my garage once sleeping in a wheelbarrow with a tarp over it. be more than happy to ignore 'em if they weren’t tryin to ambush me

    AFKBRBChocolate,

    That thing about ticks probably isn’t true

    ColeSloth,

    Aww maaan.

    Sizzler, (edited )

    Heck, that link goes so far as to have a personal experience where they think an opposum brought ticks with Lyme disease from a dear with it that affected their dog.

    My one question is, would it be that easy to see a tick in an opposum’s stomach contents?

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