Guest, shug wrote:

"Marsupials Only come from Australia and that means no where else has then as an indigenous species.
Just a little something for you to read and keep for pub quizes and the like
Shug "

Actually, we have one marsupial in North America, the opossum --- or given that this is Mudcat -- the 'possum. It plays dead when threatened, hence "playing 'possum." They are nocuturnal scavengers and not terribly bright. Nor particularly cute, since they have long narrow snouts with lots of needle sharp teeth, red eyes and nekkid rat-like prehensile tails. The vet-tech sister of a friend of mine fostered some baby possums at the same time she was fostering a baby raccoon. It was not a fair competition, the baby coon was so much more appealing, the poor possums didn't have a chance.