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From: clare@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Clare Jacqueline  West)
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Subject: TALK: Opossum
Date: 21 Oct 1994 06:15:38 -0500
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rkh2@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
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