12 Jun
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Oh, possum! Learning to distinguish between cute marsupials

The first time I saw the word "possum", I thought: "Oh, someone has sealed himself." By the way, text editors and search engines do not honor this word either. The confusion has a long and funny history: even members of the expedition of James Cook (yes, the same one) mistakenly called the Australian possums possums. But possum and possum are rather distant relatives. Despite the fact that they both belong to marsupials, they live in different parts of the world. Possums "captured" America and belong to the possum family, while possums live in Australia and are proudly called cuckoo. Today we will talk about the "Americans".

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