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A stuffed fox squirrel (Sciurus niger), photographed at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
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Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana)
Pensacola, Florida
5 June 2009.
1/60 sec @ f/5.6, Canon Rebel XSi with 300mm lens.
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The skeleton of a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), photographed at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. (Notice the foramina, or small holes, in the upper jaw. In life these housed blood vessels that nourished the whale's baleen plates. They are also useful anatomical clues in…
A Pachycephalosaurus, photographed at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
Adorable. You keep featuring animals my dogs have frightened in the recent past!
Interesting animals-- I've many times had to evict them from my house (the trick to catching a possum? Walk up to possum. Pick up possum by tail. They ain't all that bright or all that fast.)
A couple of observations from possums I've kept captive (never more than for a few hours until I could release them somewhere else):
1.) they groom themselves by licking their feet and running them through their fur like a cat-- but use their BACK feet to do it.
2.) they (well, at least one of them) blink one eye at a time, seconds apart, never (during my observation) both eyes at once.
A few photos of my guests mixed in with this disorganized folder:
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Cute ltl possum (never called 'em 'O'possum) reminds me of the pet I kept as a kid, named, with great originality, Pos. Found him one morning hanging by his tail in a mulberry tree. No sign of mom & sibs. Climbed up & nabbed the ltl fella. Had Pos for several years. Kept him in a rabbit hutch. Completely tame. Never once offered to bite. Would climb my mom's curtains & hang by his tail from the curtain rod. Would climb onto a kitchen chair & down into the waste can to poop. Never pooped on the floor. Poor Pos got his ears frostbitten one winter's night & was kinda funny looking after that. Went tricker-treatin' one Halloween with Pos down in my candy bag. Ladies would freak when I opened it to receive my treat and they saw a big "rat" lookin' up at 'em. Thanks for the memories...