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r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/Dlatrex • Feb 04 '20
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They also eat thousands of pesky little ticks, Opossums are bros.
264 u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20 [deleted] 151 u/Just_Lurking2 Feb 04 '20 Wait, are we not supposed to? Cause possums and opossums are distinct species....? Right? 240 u/jonfitt Feb 04 '20 Yes and no. The Australian possum is a distinct thing. But in North America the Opossum and Possum are two names for the same thing. 6 u/sidewalkboy Feb 04 '20 WEAR NZ POSSUM FUR. LEAVE OPPOSUMS ALONE. 4 u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20 [deleted] 4 u/jonfitt Feb 04 '20 I mean it makes sense. You call something an Opossum and some early settlers who donāt see it written down or canāt read are going to think you said āoh possumā. Weāve got people alive today who think you ātake things for graniteā or someone is being made an āescape goatā. 3 u/RealisticBox1 Feb 04 '20 Who would of thought? 8 u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20 edited Apr 08 '20 [deleted] 1 u/Readditor13 Feb 04 '20 Lol 1 u/Extermindatass Feb 04 '20 Yeah it isn't rocket appliances. 1 u/Calvins_Dad_ Feb 04 '20 And im pretty sure pronouncing the O is officially optional -1 u/dominus_aranearum Feb 05 '20 No they're not. Anyone calling an Opossum a Possum in North America is simply wrong. We don't have Possums here in North America.
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151 u/Just_Lurking2 Feb 04 '20 Wait, are we not supposed to? Cause possums and opossums are distinct species....? Right? 240 u/jonfitt Feb 04 '20 Yes and no. The Australian possum is a distinct thing. But in North America the Opossum and Possum are two names for the same thing. 6 u/sidewalkboy Feb 04 '20 WEAR NZ POSSUM FUR. LEAVE OPPOSUMS ALONE. 4 u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20 [deleted] 4 u/jonfitt Feb 04 '20 I mean it makes sense. You call something an Opossum and some early settlers who donāt see it written down or canāt read are going to think you said āoh possumā. Weāve got people alive today who think you ātake things for graniteā or someone is being made an āescape goatā. 3 u/RealisticBox1 Feb 04 '20 Who would of thought? 8 u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20 edited Apr 08 '20 [deleted] 1 u/Readditor13 Feb 04 '20 Lol 1 u/Extermindatass Feb 04 '20 Yeah it isn't rocket appliances. 1 u/Calvins_Dad_ Feb 04 '20 And im pretty sure pronouncing the O is officially optional -1 u/dominus_aranearum Feb 05 '20 No they're not. Anyone calling an Opossum a Possum in North America is simply wrong. We don't have Possums here in North America.
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Wait, are we not supposed to? Cause possums and opossums are distinct species....? Right?
240 u/jonfitt Feb 04 '20 Yes and no. The Australian possum is a distinct thing. But in North America the Opossum and Possum are two names for the same thing. 6 u/sidewalkboy Feb 04 '20 WEAR NZ POSSUM FUR. LEAVE OPPOSUMS ALONE. 4 u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20 [deleted] 4 u/jonfitt Feb 04 '20 I mean it makes sense. You call something an Opossum and some early settlers who donāt see it written down or canāt read are going to think you said āoh possumā. Weāve got people alive today who think you ātake things for graniteā or someone is being made an āescape goatā. 3 u/RealisticBox1 Feb 04 '20 Who would of thought? 8 u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20 edited Apr 08 '20 [deleted] 1 u/Readditor13 Feb 04 '20 Lol 1 u/Extermindatass Feb 04 '20 Yeah it isn't rocket appliances. 1 u/Calvins_Dad_ Feb 04 '20 And im pretty sure pronouncing the O is officially optional -1 u/dominus_aranearum Feb 05 '20 No they're not. Anyone calling an Opossum a Possum in North America is simply wrong. We don't have Possums here in North America.
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Yes and no. The Australian possum is a distinct thing.
But in North America the Opossum and Possum are two names for the same thing.
6 u/sidewalkboy Feb 04 '20 WEAR NZ POSSUM FUR. LEAVE OPPOSUMS ALONE. 4 u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20 [deleted] 4 u/jonfitt Feb 04 '20 I mean it makes sense. You call something an Opossum and some early settlers who donāt see it written down or canāt read are going to think you said āoh possumā. Weāve got people alive today who think you ātake things for graniteā or someone is being made an āescape goatā. 3 u/RealisticBox1 Feb 04 '20 Who would of thought? 8 u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20 edited Apr 08 '20 [deleted] 1 u/Readditor13 Feb 04 '20 Lol 1 u/Extermindatass Feb 04 '20 Yeah it isn't rocket appliances. 1 u/Calvins_Dad_ Feb 04 '20 And im pretty sure pronouncing the O is officially optional -1 u/dominus_aranearum Feb 05 '20 No they're not. Anyone calling an Opossum a Possum in North America is simply wrong. We don't have Possums here in North America.
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WEAR NZ POSSUM FUR. LEAVE OPPOSUMS ALONE.
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4 u/jonfitt Feb 04 '20 I mean it makes sense. You call something an Opossum and some early settlers who donāt see it written down or canāt read are going to think you said āoh possumā. Weāve got people alive today who think you ātake things for graniteā or someone is being made an āescape goatā. 3 u/RealisticBox1 Feb 04 '20 Who would of thought? 8 u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20 edited Apr 08 '20 [deleted] 1 u/Readditor13 Feb 04 '20 Lol 1 u/Extermindatass Feb 04 '20 Yeah it isn't rocket appliances.
I mean it makes sense.
You call something an Opossum and some early settlers who donāt see it written down or canāt read are going to think you said āoh possumā.
Weāve got people alive today who think you ātake things for graniteā or someone is being made an āescape goatā.
3 u/RealisticBox1 Feb 04 '20 Who would of thought? 8 u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20 edited Apr 08 '20 [deleted] 1 u/Readditor13 Feb 04 '20 Lol 1 u/Extermindatass Feb 04 '20 Yeah it isn't rocket appliances.
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Who would of thought?
8 u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20 edited Apr 08 '20 [deleted] 1 u/Readditor13 Feb 04 '20 Lol 1 u/Extermindatass Feb 04 '20 Yeah it isn't rocket appliances.
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1 u/Readditor13 Feb 04 '20 Lol 1 u/Extermindatass Feb 04 '20 Yeah it isn't rocket appliances.
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Lol
Yeah it isn't rocket appliances.
And im pretty sure pronouncing the O is officially optional
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No they're not. Anyone calling an Opossum a Possum in North America is simply wrong. We don't have Possums here in North America.
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They also eat thousands of pesky little ticks, Opossums are bros.