Continuing Today's Obsession With Our Wildlife
Posted 23 January 2009 in Random Photographs by Catriona
I think I’ve figured out where our possum sleeps during the day:
That’s right: today’s discerning possum chooses not a hollow tree, but the small space between a cupboard and the floorboards in a suburban garage.
I’ll say this for him: he’s a heavy sleeper. Nothing disturbs him: not the garage door opening and closing, not the car moving, and not unexpected flash photography. If only I could sleep that soundly.
Previously: The Big Lizard Is Back!
Next: Strange Conversations: Part Eighty-Three
Share your thoughts [6]
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Nick Caldwell wrote at Jan 23, 06:42 am
A sound sleeper, but strangely animated. Lots of cycling leg motions.
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Catriona wrote at Jan 23, 07:19 am
And clutching at the floorboards with its front paws. Maybe it’s dreaming?
(I think Nick’s worried that readers will assume I’ve just posted a picture of a dead possum—or even one that’s simply pining for the fjords. But no: very much alive.)
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Leigh wrote at Jan 23, 10:14 am
Am I looking at the photo right, is he sleeping on his back? and are we sure that the movements are death jerks? or that he isn’t stuck? weird weird possum
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Catriona wrote at Jan 23, 10:28 am
Yep, he’s sleeping on his back. I have no idea whether he wriggles in on his back or turns around once he gets in there—or how he’d turn around in such a small space.
Nope, they’re definitely not death jerks—we’ve seen him there before, and he stretches and wriggles and clutches at the beams. It doesn’t look like a death spasm.
Yep, he’s a weird, weird possum.
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Tim wrote at Jan 24, 06:39 am
My first (well, third) thought, too, was whether he was stuck. The photo does look a bit like he’s performing a feat of strength that is proving too much for him.
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Catriona wrote at Jan 24, 06:49 am
He’s definitely not stuck. I have no idea how he gets in and out of there, but he’s not there now, so there’s more room than there seems to be.
Or less possum, I suppose.