Philosopher Susana Monsó's book Playing Possum, newly translated into English next month, makes the strong case that many ...

Raccoons and possums are often confused with one another. After all, they’re both likely to spend some time sifting through ...

Opossums also aren’t as “dirty” as many people think. They can carry fleas, but they have resistance to many viruses, ...

Hognose snakes are relatively small, making them easy prey for larger animals (including other snakes) if they don't get ...

"Playing Possum" is the first philosophical book to deal with the topic of animals’ death-related cognition. The concept of ...

Another way to be considerate to opossums who might appear in your yard in any season, according to Karvonen? “Be aware of what your pets are doing. Since they ‘play dead,’ opossums don’t ...

When being chased, the opossum plays dead — and unleashes a dump that smells like rotting flesh. It seems to do the trick. Carnivores don’t like feasting on dead or diseased animals — they ...

Really, Roz could be any of us. Pinktail imparts this wisdom, telling Roz that no parent has the code for what they are doing ...

Just like an opossum playing dead, parenting is often a practiced performance necessary for survival. Any parent who has risen in the middle of a sleep cycle to feed or change a crying baby ...

But mother, it seemed, was not ready to let baby go. For 17 days in the summer of 2018, the orca swam with her offspring ...

But the ability to play with someone after they’ve died is new. I’m interested in how computer games make this possible, and what it means to the living left behind. I wanted to understand ...