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

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

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

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

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 ...

Pinktail imparts this wisdom, telling Roz that no parent has the code for what they are doing. Just like an opossum playing ...

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 ...

Lying on the side of the road one night, coming to after playing dead to avoid being eaten by the truck going seventy speeding away after striking them, possums caught sight of their reflection in ...

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 ...

When dead animals are left lying around in nature, who takes advantage of the free feed—carnivores or herbivores? The answer ...

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 ...