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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They don't scream, they have a low-grade hiss. That's got to be the quietest animals I've come in contact with.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (5 children)

They also don't eat ticks

https://outdoor.wildlifeillinois.org/articles/debunking-the-myth-opossums-dont-eat-ticks

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

wth OP?

Is anything real anymore?!~?!?1

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

We're just going to have to get our marsupial facts elsewhere from now on, jeez.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I'm so disappointed because I had a tick on me recently and it was horrible

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

You may be lucky enough not to know that when ticks feed, their bodies expand and they get rounder and rounder (see Figure 4) until they can’t consume another drop and they drop off, a process called ‘feeding to repletion.’

Oh. So glad I know that phrase now. :|

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I know, but sir, this is a wendy's. I'm just here spreading possum memes because I like them

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

True possum memes are cooler than ones that are misinformed!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

You’re learning!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So, does anything actually eat ticks? Anyone knows?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

https://extension.umaine.edu/ticks/management/biological-control/

None that specialize in them so most aren't good tick deterrents

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Apparently, fungi will save us once again.