Cute, in a dorky kind of way.
Posted on 09/11/2023 10:48:09 AM PDT by nickcarraway
“Aussie possums have bushy tails.”
Good to know. Thanks.
What an arm!! Give that orangutan a contract!
And....STAY OUT!
Would those screaming rather he flung his own poop at them instead of a live opossum? LOL!
Yeah, Nature can be brutal. Animals ARE animals. It’s wise to always remember that.
Cute, in a dorky kind of way.
“Cute, in a dorky kind of way.”
I think all nature is cute... unless it stings, bites, sprays, poops on or chases me.
I am a son of the suburbs. My idea of deep woods is a corner of the backyard overgrown with weeds.
Can we introduce the ape to the Gov of New Mexico?
“I am a son of the suburbs. My idea of deep woods is a corner of the backyard overgrown with weeds.”
I hear ya. But you know you can still get stung, bitten, pooped on, sprayed on and chased in your own back yard. I’m just lucky enough to have only had two of those things happen in my back yard. So far, I’ve only had possums, racoons, snakes and stinging insects to deal with there.
Yeah, I’m wondering if it’s screaming or cheering?
Well, we’re on the same page vis a vis raccoons. The one species, besides us, that shouldn’t have been blessed with opposable thumbs. My daughter raises chickens and never complains about possums. Foxes and raccoons? Different story.
What’s so alarming about that? As kids, we use to play a game called “bat the possum” with points given on how far it would fly.......It was only good for two swats at the most.
The oddest local wildlife of all in the last few years are sandhill cranes in the yard and wandering the neighborhood. They are several feet tall and, being protected, are accustomed to having no one bother them. They look at you as what they are: the descendants of velociraptors, with a predator's beak and a taste for frogs and other wetlands creatures.
“The oddest local wildlife of all in the last few years are sandhill cranes in the yard and wandering the neighborhood. They are several feet tall and, being protected, are accustomed to having no one bother them. They look at you as what they are: the descendants of velociraptors, with a predator’s beak and a taste for frogs and other wetlands creatures.”
That reminded me of one time that I ‘ran afowl’ of a goose that somehow thought it was trapped in my back yard. The house I was living in at the time backed up to a drainage creek. Somehow the goose thought it was trapped inside the chain link fence. It was running back and forth, flapping and gronking like it was the end of the world. Hilarious. It finally figured out it could just fly back out.
If a mouse fell down a 1,000-foot mine shaft, the renowned evolutionary biologist JBS Haldane once proposed, the mouse would rise, shake the dust off itself, and scurry away. Maybe even right back up to do it again.
If a rat fell from the same height, however, it would die.
A human would break, Haldane writes, and a horse would splash. ..snip
But more importantly, what happens when Timmy falls down a well and Lassie isn’t there to save him? ;)
If you turn up the sound you can hear the possum say “WEE YIPEE!!”
This is Australia......... exactly what is an Australian possum?
Katana,
Sorry, but you are full of $hit. Hiss? BS. Their teeth will rip your hand off. My old girlfriend’s cousin lost a smaller dog to a Possum. Tore him to shreds.
Kiwis hunt these VERMIN because they are not indigenous to NZ. Apart from their destruction of our native plants and animals, possums are also a major pest on farmland.
Go back to PETA or bone up on your knowledge.
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