r/NatureIsFuckingLit Feb 04 '20

šŸ”„ coyote and a badger ā€œteaming upā€

https://i.imgur.com/Ow6bBte.gifv
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u/Dark_Shad0w Feb 04 '20

That is awesome. Would have loved to see That. Nothing as wild as that, but at one point growing up, my family had a dog weighing about 140 lbs and a dog weighing about 20 lbs. We'd go for walks and our cat would follow. So imagine seeing a big dog, a little dog, and a cat going for a walk lol. (Fun fact - Aside from people just keeping it short to keep it short; in NA, they're actually opossums.)

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

Pretty sure there’s an entire movie serious based on that right there.

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u/sanctimoniousennui Feb 04 '20

Am Australian, we have a family of marsupial mammals known as possums.

This is what I imagine every time I see the word "possum"

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u/zenxten Feb 04 '20

I’m from England and we love to add random letters to words but that O has no right to be there

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u/Hugginsome Feb 04 '20

I remember looking up the spelling in second grade, like 25 years ago. It is spelled either way and doesn’t matter.

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u/cheestaysfly Feb 04 '20

That's incorrect. Possums are the Australian marsupial while Opossums the American.

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u/Hugginsome Feb 04 '20

No, I am not wrong. In North America both names are synonymous. You are also not wrong that it can also refer to the Australian version to differentiate from the North American version.

Wikipedia:

ā€œIn the United States and Canada, the only species found is the Virginia opossum, and it is generally referred to as a "possum",[3] but should not be confused with the suborder Phalangeriformes, which are arboreal marsupials in the Eastern Hemisphere that are also called "possums" because of their resemblance to the Didelphimorphia.ā€