Name: What Is Playing Possum? Animal Facts
Uploaded: 2015-05-28T06:11:41.000Z
Duration: 1 min 57 s
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Past continuous

Have you ever heard someone say they were playing possum?

Modal verbs - A2

Well, humans can try to play possum, but they probably don’t do as well as the real thing.

Future simple

When a real possum gets scared, it will flop down and play dead in hopes that the animal

attacking them will just leave them alone. But, the possum doesn’t do this concisely.

It is more like they faint. They can’t control it, they just pass out. They stay this way

even when picked up, poked or prodded. Most people will think the animal is really dead

and you probably wouldn’t know unless you listened for its heartbeat with a stethoscope.

Now if you want to play possum like the real thing, you need to just pass out, have your

lips curled back to show your teeth, foam at the mouth, have your eyes ½ shut and….well,

real possums then have a liquid leak out of their anus that smells really foul (like something

dead and rotting). Oh yeah, you could probably do most of this

pretty easily, but the foaming of the mouth and the foul smelling liquid, may be taking

it a bit too far. So there ya have it; playing possum should

be left to real possums that are experts at it.

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