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Playing possum" can also mean simply pretending to be injured, unconscious, asleep, or otherwise vulnerable, often to lure an opponent into a vulnerable position. [13] The usual advice for humans attempting to survive an attack by a brown bear is to lie face down, cover the face with one's hands/arms/elbows, and 'play dead'. [17]
When injured or threatened (e.g., by a dog), the Virginia opossum is known to feign death or "play possum". If threatened, an opossum will either flee or take a stand. To appear threatening, an opossum will first bare its 50 teeth, snap its jaw, hiss, drool, and stand its fur on end to look bigger. [22]
[6] The Powhatan word ultimately derives from a Proto-Algonquian word (*wa·p-aʔθemwa) meaning "white dog or dog-like beast." [ 6 ] Following the arrival of Europeans in Australia , the term possum was borrowed to describe distantly related Australian marsupials of the suborder Phalangeriformes , [ 7 ] which are more closely related to other ...
We raced to their rescue after skunk sprayings, possum gashes and a terrifying coyote attack. But like most pet owners, it never occurred to me to consider their dental care — and I worked as a ...
A four-year-old girl died after being attacked by a dog in the back garden of a home in Milton Keynes
You would think a possum would, you know, 'play possum' when threatened -- but this YouTube video shows that's not what happened when one possum met an unsuspecting deer. Fox News says, "The deer ...
With the reduction of rabies in Europe and North America, few rabid wolf attacks have been recorded, though some still occur annually in the Middle East. Rabid attacks can be distinguished from predatory attacks by the fact that rabid wolves limit themselves to biting their victims rather than consuming them.
A 26-year-old man was mauled to death by his pet dogs in a horror attack that left another victim seriously injured. Pedro Luis Ortega was attacked by his three American bully dogs outside Ericson ...