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TALK: Opossum
    
                        


                                            

                

            

        


    

        

            

                

                    
TALK: Opossum

                    

                        From rkh...@ukc.ac.uk
                        · rec.arts.ascii
                        · 21 Oct 1994 03:54                                                    · View full thread
                                            

                

            

        


        

            

                

                    

                        
In article <37mibp$c2...@sashimi.wwa.com>,
Dave BIGGS - Dave <dav...@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote:
>In article <37k7gb$a5...@sashimi.wwa.com> kha...@mail.sas.upenn.edu (Cappy Harrison) writes:
>>In article <37f1q0$5e...@sashimi.wwa.com>, nve...@emr1.emr.ca (Normand
>>Veilleux) wrote:
>>> Yet another person was in need of an opossum.
>>'possum have really skinny, hairless tails.  This looks more like a lemur.
>
>Well not in australia they don't. Possums have large bushy tails.

As I understand it opossums and possums are not the same.  The former is
South American, I think, and completely unrelated, having evolved separately
from the Australian possum.

Ryan.

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