In literature:
Never mind, we have got meat for one day more, and we may trap an opossum or beaver, or perhaps Boxer may catch us something.
"With Axe and Rifle" by W.H.G. Kingston
Now a dingo or wild dog, now a toombat or opossum, made its appearance, and created matter of interest and inquiry.
"The Gilpins and their Fortunes" by William H. G. Kingston
We carried the opossum back to the camp, with three or four parrots which Kanimapo had shot.
"The Young Llanero" by W.H.G. Kingston
Mr Banks likewise captured an Australian opossum, a female, with two young ones.
"Captain Cook" by W.H.G. Kingston
During our stay we got enough opossum skins to make a fine eight-feet square rug.
"The Call Of The South" by Louis Becke
This time he changed himself into an opossum.
"Thirty Indian Legends" by Margaret Bemister
They killed kangaroos, opossums, a species of pole-cat, wolves, and various kinds of serpents, some of which were venomous.
"Celebrated Travels and Travellers" by Jules Verne
The chief occupants of the soil were the wild deer, turkeys, wolves, raccoons, opossums, with huge rattlesnakes to contest the intrusion.
"An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America" by J. P. MacLean
I once knew a family of opossums living in a stump in the center of a dense thicket.
"Edge of the Jungle" by William Beebe
Anybody but a fighter would have taken to a tree, like an opossum, run at last to shelter.
"Frank of Freedom Hill" by Samuel A. Derieux
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In poetry:
I love to gaze upon a child;
A young bud bursting into blossom;
Artless, as Eve yet unbeguiled,
And agile as a young opossum:
"Gemini And Virgo" by Charles Stuart Calverley
“He’ll grow as gentle as a fawn—
As quiet as the blossoms
That beautify a land of lawn—
He’ll eat no more opossums.
"Peter the Piccaninny" by Henry Kendall
As the small opossum held in pouch maternal
Grasps the nutrient organ whence the term mammalia,
So the unknown stranger held the wire electric,
Sucking in the current.
"De Sauty" by Oliver Wendell Holmes
In news:
Police say they charged a Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen trying to resuscitate a long-dead opossum along a highway.
Opossum 's Life Rapidly Goes From Awesome To Over With – January 6, 2010.
Keith Spera / The Times-Picayune A desperate opossum tries to escape Sophie's grasp at the Audubon Zoo.
View full size Jack O'Brien Jack O'Brien sent in a striped opossum from his photo archives.
The Miami Heat have, apparently, been playing opossum with us this entire season.
Jersey City police say man faces weapons charges after 3 am opossum hunt.
Cops stop his opossum hunt.
Last year around this time it was baby bunnies, today it was baby opossums.
Employees of the restaurant saw the snake in mid-July killing an opossum.
No, these rabbits, foxes, opossums and deer are made of ceramic , part of Buffalo State College student Michelle Sallander's ceramics thesis exhibition, titled "Predator/Prey.".
'Dead' opossum isn't dead, but it's not playing, either .
Earlier this year, Rochelle Hays of Oakley caught this opossum apparently exploring the blue plumbago in her backyard.
Raccoon and opossum sightings are down by 99 percent.
I'm talking about mice, opossums, skunks, raccoons, gophers and squirrels, without any implied offense to my cousin's cousin, Ralphie.
Jersey City police say man faces weapons charges after 3 am opossum hunt .
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In science:
One biological observation regarded as crucial support for the mutation accumulation hypothesis are the Virginia opossum.
The Penna Model of Biological Aging
Virginia opossums, minimum reproduction age and predators in the Penna aging model.
The Penna Model of Biological Aging
The pairing of the opossum spermatozoa enable them to swim more efficiently in very viscous fluids [169].
The hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms
Sperm pairing in the opossum increases the efficiency of sperm movement in a viscous environment.
The hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms
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