TALK: Opossum
From Clare Jacqueline West <cla...@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
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· 21 Oct 1994 11:15 · View full thread
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rkh...@ukc.ac.uk writes: > As I understand it opossums and possums are not the same. The former is > South American, I think, and completely unrelated, having evolved separately > from the Australian possum. The possums of Austrailia (and NZ -- please take them all back) are called opossums, but we just can't be bothered saying the o. They are marsupials. I'm pretty sure the South American ones are too, but obviously there is more than one species of opossum. clare -- cla...@cs.auckland.ac.nz OWotRFA Thinking of Maud you forget everything else. -- hack v1.0.3 Who was that Maud person anyway? -- nethack v3.1.0
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,e307a154d4a52363 X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-26 15:47:06 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!sashimi.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: cla...@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Clare Jacqueline West) Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii Subject: TALK: Opossum Date: 21 Oct 1994 06:15:38 -0500 Organization: University of Auckland Lines: 19 Sender: bob...@wwa.com Approved: bob...@wwa.com Message-ID: <3887sq$4i...@sashimi.wwa.com> References: <37f1q0$5e...@sashimi.wwa.com> <37k7gb$a5...@sashimi.wwa.com> <37mibp$c2...@sashimi.wwa.com> <387e28$9j...@sashimi.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sashimi.wwa.com
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