Opossums: Survival Machines The opossum is a waddling, mostly nocturnal creature that looks like a cross between a bleached raccoon and a cartoon rat. If you live in North America, you’ve likely seen scores of them as road kill, a sad fact that does nothing to discourage the opossum’s reputation as one of the dumbest [...]
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Archives / June 2012
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Old people just smell. It’s not mean or ageist to say, it’s a chemical fact. Aging humans share this detectable change in odor with many other animals, including mice, deer, rabbits, otters, owls and monkeys. While part of this scent is scientifically attributable to the oily secretions of the apocrine glands, I think we all [...]
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