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The males have forked penises that correspond to the female’s two uteruses.

EVERYONE FROM MY COLLEGE YEARS CAN FIGHT ME!

I was right all along. Possums and opossums are different. Possums are in Australia and opossums are in North America. I was right all along!

They’ve been around for sixty-five million years—appearing just as the dinosaurs went extinct—and their physiology is completely unique. They were kept as pets in the White House by multiple US presidents.

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So cute and fascinating, review to come!

If you REALLY just have to have the possum cuteness, become a rehabber. Join up with a wildlife rescue center and learn how to do it properly. One shouldn’t half @ss being the caretaker of any animal.

Also, despite eating whatever they can get their paws on, feeding them a healthy diet is NOT as easy as opening up a can of food and plopping it on their plate. They also require other specialized care and need to walk a LOT more than a dog. And vet bills, who needs them? Let it be in the wild.

I really like how this book stresses that possums are NOT pets and that they deserve a full life the way they were meant to live it, in the wild. They aren’t dangerous critters, but that doesn’t mean they should be pets. Besides, they are more beneficial to humans in the wild, eating pests like ticks and cockroaches.

By unintentionally killing possums via car and cats (keep your cat pets indoors people! It’s better for the cat AND the environment/ecosystem), we have unnaturally selected for possums that die within a year, but have a HUGE amount of young quickly.

Possums are immune to the venom of pit vipers!!! They are also immune to scorpion stings and eat scorpions too!!