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[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They do eat to ticks, but they're resistant to Lyme disease, not rabies. It's not that opossum hunt ticks or anything, they're just real good at grooming, and as ticks are real good at sticking to furry critters, opossum naturally end up fighting both ticks numbers and Lyme disease incidents.

So, yeah, same same but different.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Why does the picture say they don't eat ticks :( it's misinformation.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Three vaginas instead of immunity to rabies seems like a bad trade.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Sure, if you just focus on the rabies. But if you invest based on the vagina to rabies ratio, you'll see good returns.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

if you invest based on the vagina to rabies ratio, you'll see good returns

Words to live by.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, as a human, I enjoy my vagina a fair bit, and rabies has never been a problem. Id go for this choice too.

Unless it comes with 3 uterusses too, in which case I'd rather eat ticks.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

That's my secret. I'm always perioding.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I love possums but they, like rats (also such amazing creatures) like to move into your walls, eaves, and attics and poop and have babies. I hate and love them. Always cool to see one in the yard. America's only marsupial, right?

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

When I was a kid, I had a series of rodents, including rats. I always thought it was really cool how my rats, when walking along a tenuous surface, would wrap (or attempt to wrap) their tails around the object (usually my arm) to provide themselves security from falling.

I don't know if possums do the same, I've never encountered one, but your "amazing creatures" interjection reminded me of that.

edit: Correct a word.

[–] Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What exactly do people have against possums? I've never seen one.

[–] EntropicalVacation@midwest.social -1 points 4 months ago
  1. They’re ugly as sin.
  2. They’re scary as shit when you happen across one in the dark and it hisses at you with its pointy teeth and glowing eyes.
  3. I left my car parked in a lot at work overnight, and in the morning it wouldn’t start. A possum had climbed up under the hood and chewed clean through a bundle of wires that apparently was most of the electrical system. It was so stupid that it wouldn’t leave even when I poked it with a stick. That car never ran again.