Brendan Schaub

Holly Holm - before she fought Ronda, the fights were never that great. It was like, 'Yeah, she's screwed against Ronda!' Well, what they were doing is they were kind of playing opossum, just waiting for the big shot.

American Comedian

Opossums are known for 'playing possum', a defense mechanism where they appear dead.

Behavioral Mimicry

Unlike rodents, opossums are marsupials, related to kangaroos and koalas, with a pouch for offspring.

Marsupial Distinction

In North America, 'opossum' refers to the Virginia opossum, not to be confused with 'possums' in Australia.

Not Always 'Possum'

 and a specialist in nuisance wildlife. So, he managed to get all the ghosts out of my house, the squirrels, the opossums, the nine raccoons, the birds, the rats. It was either that or to designate it a national wildlife refuge. Now Mike had quite a menagerie at his own home and I was curious, so I photographed him.

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 So from that point, there was a fit of opossum fever. There were billy possum postcards, billy possum pins, billy possum pitchers for your cream at coffee time. There were smaller billy possums on a stick that kids could wave around like flags. But even with all this marketing, the life of the billy possum

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 And in this case, a neighbor saw it. And the next report we got said, "I walked over to this location, found the trashcan behind the house. Opossum? Check. Living? Yep. Turned trashcan on its side. Walked home. Goodnight sweet opossum."

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 During this time, South America was the home of fauna that included armored glyptodonts as large as compact cars, giant ground sloths weighing more than a ton, opossums, monkeys, and carnivorous terror birds.

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 Fantastic animals that are real, extremely alive and endangered. Boa snakes and kinkajous, opossums and tarantulas, salamanders and moths. Animals that one might see once in a lifetime,

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 that have figured out how to fly without using say an airplane or a helicopter or a hot-air balloon they probably evolved from something like this mouse opossum and he kind of

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 opossums an acronym for polar suborbital science in the upper mesosphere and what we are doing is looking to use this next generation of commercial vehicles

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 central ish Juma an opossum camp then they went to Philemon Scotland in which is when we get to the den that we're going to now we entered through that

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 this particular tree has attracted the attention of a lace monitor because it's the home of a female opossum with babies in her nest

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 it's about a hair-trigger so anything that touches that opossum rabbit whatever I don't care

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