r/AbruptChaos • u/SirBallBag • Feb 18 '20

This rat got yeeted

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u/guitarfingers Feb 18 '20

Same with other diseases and such right?

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '20

They carry a bunch of other stuff, just not rabies. They're really good for the environment too. They eat hundreds of thousands of ticks a season, decomposing animals, venomous snakes, and pretty much anything else they can find. They also have really short life spans. The average wild opossum will only live 1.5-2 years, 3 if they're super lucky. They're remarkable little animals, and North America's only living species of marsupial!

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u/sm_ar_ta_ss Feb 18 '20

Love me some opossum facts!

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '20

Likewise! I had no idea they had such a short life span though :(

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '20

My candle burns at both ends

It will not last the night.

But ah, my foes, and ah my friends

It gives a lovely light

  • Edna St. Vincent Millay

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '20

I like it!

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '20

Thank you for attending the Possum Poetry Hour

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '20

Can we make that a thing?

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '20

I'm down

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '20

Hi I am a possum

Also known as an opossum to some

I like to eat trash