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Virginia opossum feigning death, or "playing possum" Opossums are usually solitary and nomadic, staying in one area as long as food and water are easily available. Some families will group together in ready-made burrows or even under houses.
Whale Fishery – Attacking a Right Whale, New England whaling c. 1860 Assortment of whaling harpoons, 1887 Matthew Fontaine Maury (U.S.N.) Whale Chart-1851. Beginning in the late colonial period, the United States grew to become the preeminent whaling nation in the world by the 1830s.
A traditional method of preparation is baking, sometimes in a pie or pastry, [65] though at present "possum pie" most often refers to a sweet confection containing no meat of any kind. [66] Around the turn of the 20th century, the opossum was the subject of numerous songs, including "Carve dat Possum", a minstrel song written in 1875 by Sam ...
Food chain in a Swedish lake. Osprey feed on northern pike, which in turn feed on perch which eat bleak which eat crustaceans.. A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web, often starting with an autotroph (such as grass or algae), also called a producer, and typically ending at an apex predator (such as grizzly bears or killer whales), detritivore (such as earthworms and woodlice ...
The pygmy right whale shares several characteristics with the right whales, with the exception of having a dorsal fin. Also, pygmy right whales' heads are no more than one quarter the size of their bodies, whereas the right whales' heads are about one-third the size of their bodies. [11] The pygmy right whale is the only extant member of its ...
Also known as the takuache, and the cuh, the Edgar can make those who embrace it look like fools or misfits. Moe Howard , the leader of the Three Stooges, wore one. So did Lloyd Christmas ...
The common opossum (Didelphis marsupialis), also called the southern or black-eared opossum [2] or gambá, and sometimes called a possum, is a marsupial species living from the northeast of Mexico to Bolivia (reaching the coast of the South Pacific Ocean to the central coast of Peru), including Trinidad and Tobago and the Windwards in the Caribbean, [2] where it is called manicou. [3]
Pygmy possums have large eyes, long ears, and curling, prehensile tails they use to climb and hols onto tree branches. In times of plenty, the base of their tails can be quite round and fat.