I love them, especially since I saw some wildlife rescue programme where a woman had one in her cupboard and called up the wildlife centre terrified that there was a "monster" in there!
And this:
Being marsupials, opossums have a lower body temperature than other mammals, and they subsequently seem to be unable to carry the rabies virus.
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Date: 2010-08-04 07:42 am (UTC)And this:
Being marsupials, opossums have a lower body temperature than other mammals, and they subsequently seem to be unable to carry the rabies virus.
is all news to me. Interesting.