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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 (12 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 (11 children)

They also don't eat ticks

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

[–] [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. :|

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