Jordan Lake School of the Arts had some very special visitors last week when a local rescue organization brought some ...

Opossum uses its defense mechanism of 'playing dead' when it feels threatened. It collapses, emits a foul odour, and becomes ...

SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY, Calif. – Why did the opossum cross the bridge? We’ll never know because California Highway Patrol (CHP) out of San Francisco stopped the critter in the act. CHP says the opossum ...

Yak is a large mammal that lives in the Himalayas and Central Asia. This long haired animal thrives in high altitudes. Yellow ...

Here are 10 of them. Conveniently located on Possum Kingdom Lake, west of Fort Worth, most origins of the name point to Ike Sablonsky, an East Coast native who settled in North Texas in the early ...

Defense Mechanism: The opossum doesn’t just play dead—it also emits a foul ... Whether through a chemical explosion, bone-breaking claws, or a convincing act of playing dead, these animals prove that ...

Mechanismus defensionis: The opossum doesn’t just play dead—it also emits a foul ... Whether through a chemical explosion, bone-breaking claws, or a convincing act of playing dead, these animals prove ...

Remember Saffron the opossum? After the rat-tailed pet marsupial was seized by Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries officers during Carnival 2024, he seemed to vanish as completely as Amelia Earhart.

Harlow, H., in Behavior and Evolution (edit. by Roe, A., and Simpson, G. G.) (Yale, New Haven, 1958); Walls, G. C., The Vertebrate Eye (Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills ...

Jackie Wilcox, who runs Lucky's Place Where Wildlife Matters. She's been taking care of wildlife, especially opossums, for years. She says she knew right away what happened to this one.

A woman in Nebraska saw a trail of tiny chocolate footprints in her backyard — only to find an opossum had devoured an entire Costco-sized cake! The animal was taken to a wildlife rehab and was ...