free possum facts you say?
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possums canāt get rabies! well, *almost* exactly never. their body temperature is too low for rabies to live, so possums very very rarely have rabies.
possums have the most teeth out of any mammal in north america! dw tho, they also have the smallest brain-to-body ratio out of any mammal in NA, so you canāt worry about devilish sneaky possums getting you. also they generally just run or play dead when threatened.
something about them playing dead is that they actually donāt control it! theyāre unconscious during and they also leak nasty smelling butt juices to make them smell dead so donāt touch
another funky fact is that they have thirteen (13!) nipples! the nipples are arranged in a circle with one in the middle. as they are marsupials, (the only in NA!) the nipples are in their handy pouch (if they are female).
possums have the shortest gestational period out of any mammal in north america too! only ~12 days long! since that isnāt very long for the babies to be in the cooker, they come out smaller than a jellybean :) which is adorable but unFORTUNETLY they are so small they need a whole nipple to themselves to survive, and thereās only 13 nipples, and possums can give birth to up to 25 childsā¦..
also possums in the wild only live 1-2 years
but they have adorable grippy little tails and adorable thumbs on their **hind feet and cute fluffy faces so :))
last fact: they are good boys
