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unusual facts about Possum



Bob Brockie

Brockie takes a strong interest in refuting popular myths, like danger to humans from 1080 poison used to control possum populations.

Curfew bell

T. S. Eliot Gus the theater cat ("Old possum's book of practical cats")

Deputy Dawg

The other main characters are the ' varmints' Muskie Muskrat, Moley Mole, Possible 'Possum, Ty Coon, Vincent van Gopher, Pig Newton, and Dawg's boss the Sheriff, as well as Mrs. Deputy.

Eastbourne, New Zealand

With a locally administered possum eradication programme much of the native bush has regenerated including some magnificent red flowering northern rātā trees.

Elanna Allen

She subsequently animated on Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold! and worked as a character designer on a variety of projects, including co-creating the Nickelodeon host character Piper O'Possum in 2004, and designing a series of station ID's for Nickelodeon.

Endiandra

Seed dispersal of various species in the genus is also carried out by fishes and big and small mammals as Pachyderms, Bovids, monkeys, arboreal rodents, porcupines, possums ...

Juned

They were signed up Up Records and released "So White" (a 7" single) and the album "Juned" in 1994, the single "Possum" in 1995 and the CD "Every Night For You" in 1996.

Limburger sandwich

During the filming of a show for the History Channel, Daniel Lawrence Whitney ("Larry the Cable Guy") stated that the Limburger sandwich he was eating tasted "like a dead possum" after he spat it out.

Mike's Song

Originally written in 1985, and debuting that year on October 17, bass player Mike Gordon's song has been played a total of 457 times (appearing in 28% of all of Phish live shows), the third most played song in Phish history (after You Enjoy Myself and Possum).

Motukawanui Island

Motukawanui Island is a flourishing breeding ground for the North Island Brown Kiwi since the island was cleared of predators namely possums and mustelids.

Mount Worth State Park

The wet, mountain rainforest of Mountain Ash (with at least one specimen 90 metres tall, 7 metres wide and approaching 300 years old), Blackwood and Mountain Grey Gum supports a wide variety of plants and animals, such as the tree ferns, wombat, possum, platypus, Crimson Rosella, lyrebird and many others.

Muzzle Tough

Granny, frightened at the sight, thinks the bear had been "playing 'possum for twenty years" and fires several pistol shots at Sylvester (a partial reference to The Fair-Haired Hare) before Hector chases him out again.

Needtobreathe

Named after the University of Alabama football coach Bear Bryant, brothers Bear and Nathaniel Bryant "Bo" Rinehart were born and raised in rural Possum Kingdom, South Carolina, where their father, a pastor, ran a church camp.

Possum Magic

Fox wrote her first draft for Possum Magic in 1978 during a course in children’s literature at Flinders University.

Rodger Freeth

Freeth died in 1993 as a result of injuries received in an accident on the first day of the World Championship event Rally Australia co-driving for Possum Bourne.

Scaly-tailed possum

The possum has a limited range and is found in high rainfall coastal regions of the north Kimberley between Yampi Sound and Kalumburu, populations also inhabit Bigge Island and Boongaree Island.

Shanelle Workman

She provided the voice of Caren Velázquez from the video game Dino Crisis 3, Pasadena O'Possum in Crash Tag Team Racing, Jennifer Willis in Splatterhouse (2010), as well as the leading role as the voice of Milliarde in the GameCube game Baten Kaitos Origins.

Shirl's Neighbourhood

The half-hour show featured former Skyhooks frontman Graeme "Shirley" Strachan and co-host Liz Rule alongside a cast of characters including Norm The Kangaroo, Ol' Possum, Claude The Crow, Stanley The Snake, Greenfinger the Garden Gnome, Yippee the Bunyip, Bartholomew the Sheep and a band of monkeys.

The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show

Pith Possum fights various enemies with his recurring one being a mad lumberjack named Dr. Paul Bunion (voiced by Jim Cummings).

A spoof of the Batman comics (not unlike Darkwing Duck, only more extreme in its spoofing) with Pith Possum (voiced by Jeff Bennett) and his sidekick Obediah the Wonder Raccoon (voiced by Patric Zimmerman) fighting crime in Possum City when called by Commissioner Stress the Gorilla (voiced by Brad Garrett).

Tuart forest

Other attractions in the area include the National Trust heritage property Wonnerup House, walk tracks, possum spotlight trail, bird hide, historic lime pits and picnic areas.

Woggabaliri

Woggabaliri is a non-competitive game played with a ball made of Bulrush roots wrapped in possum fur where the aim is to keep the ball in the air using football (soccer) type skills of teamwork and ball control.

Yarra Bend Park

The park is home to many species of birds, bats and other mammals, reptiles (tiger snakes and blue tongued lizards are common) insects and fish (esp. carp and eels) also regularly found are Rainbow Lorikeets, Red-rumped Parrots and Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos, Water Rats and Brush-tail and Ringtail Possums.

Yung Warriors

Tjimba Possum Burns and Narjik Day Burns are sons of Selwyn Burns (Coloured Stone, Mixed Relations, No Fixed Address and Blackfire) and Tjimba Possum Burns and Danny Ramzan are the grandsons of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri


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