possum

He cocked his head to one side, shut one eye and put the other one to the hole, like a possum looking down a jug; then he glanced up with his bright eyes, gave a wink or two with his wings--which signifies gratification, you understand--and says, 'It looks like a hole, it's located like a hole--blamed if I don't believe it IS a hole!'

He's about as big as a big 'possum, and his face is striped, black and white.

Never imposing upon any one myself, I suffered no one to play the possum with me.

Talk of the liberty of the treed possum, but do not use the word in connexion with a man bottled up in an office, with Roland Bean guarding the only exit.

Those tangy frosty afternoons, when he had been forced to clean barns and plow while the other boys went rabbit and possum hunting or nutting, were afternoons whose loss he still mourned.

We called them Peggy and Possum. So she's named after the original Peggy."

If these tactics fail, the opossum has one last trick up its sleeve--"playing 'possum." In an involuntary response similar to fainting, the opossum rolls over on its side, with lips drawn back, teeth bared, and tongue hanging to the side, mimicking a dead animal.

They add that the possum loves to ride piggyback and think the two grieving animals found each other at the perfect moment.

Possum-sensitive eucalypt canopies were generally healthy as evidenced by the existence of many large trees that were later killed within the exclosures--they could not have survived and grown to those sizes with possum over-browsing.

The mutation reduces the amount of melanin produced by the animal, giving its fur an unnatural goldish colour; the possum was later named after the Japanese cartoon character Pikachu, The Age reported.

The titular possum is a grotesque puppet consisting of a human head with the legs of a spider which Philip keeps in a battered leather holdall, and repeatedly tries to destroy.